<script data-pm-proxy="intercept"></script><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[YoreChildren Newsletter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Child Protection, Politics, Catholic Church and Culture]]></description><link>https://lizyore.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mWUK!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F45143cf3-f497-49b0-a2d2-7593a2432d00_335x335.png</url><title>YoreChildren Newsletter</title><link>https://lizyore.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:29:26 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link 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href="https://www.notredamedeparis.fr/en/pray/prayer-and-meditation-at-notre-dame/the-magnificat/">The  choir sang the </a><em><a href="https://www.notredamedeparis.fr/en/pray/prayer-and-meditation-at-notre-dame/the-magnificat/">Magnificat</a></em><a href="https://www.notredamedeparis.fr/en/pray/prayer-and-meditation-at-notre-dame/the-magnificat/">, </a>the Marian hymn of praise with its sacred words rising beneath the vast Gothic vaults, while the Cathedral&#8217;s 7,800 pipe organ thundered through the ancient stones like the voice of centuries. For one fleeting moment, heaven and earth seemed to meet in song&#8212;an echo of the sacred innocence that had endured and embedded within those walls for generations. </p><p>And then, moments later, the flames came.  </p><p>What followed was more than the burning of a building. It was a haunting image of a civilization watching one of its great repositories of memory, beauty, faith and innocence consumed before its eyes. For centuries, Notre Dame stood as a visible testament to the sacred, a place where generations had brought their children, their prayers, their grief, and their hope seeking solace from the holy edifice. And on that evening, just before the conflagration, <a href="https://www.notredamedeparis.fr/en/pray/prayer-and-meditation-at-notre-dame/the-magnificat/">the Magnificat had filled its nave with humble and glorious praise.</a> </p><p>It is difficult not to see the symbolism.</p><p>What happens to a civilization when the sacred songs continue to echo, but the memory of what they mean evaporates?  </p><p>Recovering innocence in a secular world may begin with recovering that memory.</p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bzl5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe78ca81-79ca-4fdc-b4c9-5b2ea58a6907_960x1440.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bzl5!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, 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furnace of conversion: there, on Christmas 1886, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmjFkEf2IBo">as the children&#8217;s choir </a>also sang the Blessed Mother&#8217;s <em>Magnificat, </em>grace fell upon a young French teen, Paul Claudel like falling fiery embers and rendered him a converted soul.  </p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Moment of Conversion</strong></h4><p><span>He described the moment by stating, </span><em><strong><span>&#8220;In an instant, my heart was touched, and I believed.&#8221;</span> </strong></em></p><p>It was cold and bitter Christmas Day 1886, the cynical and confused 18 year old French political science student, Paul Claudel stepped into High Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral of Paris, which was crowded with noisy tourists. Claudel was annoyed and distracted by the congregation. Yet, he returned later in the day for Vespers and <em>&#8220;stood near the second pillar at the entrance of the chancel, to the right, on the side of the sacristy.&#8221;</em>  Claudel <em>&#8220;stood near the famous 14th century statue of Our Lady and the Child Jesus.&#8221; <strong>(see above). </strong></em><strong> </strong>There, he listened to the singing of the psalms and the <em>Magnificat </em>by the Cathedral&#8217;s children&#8217;s choir. </p><p>Claudel describes the astonishing moment during Vespers when, amid the ancient rhythms of prayer, something within him seemed to awaken&#8212;as though eternity itself has suddenly broken through the veil of the ordinary:</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em><strong>&#8220;Then occurred the event which dominates my entire life. In an instant, my heart was touched and I believed. I believed with such a strength of adherence, with such an uplifting of my entire being, with such powerful conviction, with such a certainty leaving no room for any kind of doubt, that since then all the books, all the arguments, all the incidents and accidents of a busy life have been unable to shake my faith; nor indeed to affect it in any way.&#8221; </strong></em></p></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em><strong>&#8220;I had suddenly experienced the excruciating consciousness of the Innocence, of the eternal childhood of God, an ineffable revelation.&#8221;</strong></em></p></div><p>Claudel continued to describe his powerful conversion experience:</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;In trying, as I have often done, to remember the minutes which followed that extraordinary moment, I can identify the following steps or elements (these, however, formed but one flash of lightning, a single weapon used by Divine Providence to reach and finally open wide the heart of a poor desperate child): &#8220;How happy are those who believe!&#8212;If only it were true! And yet?&#8212;<strong>It is true!</strong>  <strong>God exists.</strong> <strong>He is there. He is someone, He is a being as personal as I am! He loves me, He calls me.&#8221; </strong></em></p><p><em>Tears and sobs had come, and the tender hymn of the Adeste only added to my emotion. 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/__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F65febb66-a444-481b-9f37-24295246360e_255x320.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="text-align: center;">Paul Claudel</p><p>The ancient medieval cathedral became far more than a place of worship for him; it was his lifelong mentor, his silent spiritual director, and a steadfast companion,  which he visited often and where he attended mass regularly, and whose stones seemed to speak to his soul, </p><p>Nearly 60 years after his conversion, Claudel wrote on December 10, 1945,  to the Director of the Notre Dame Cathedral Children&#8217;s Choir School:</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;For seven years, from 1886 to 1893, Notre Dame of Paris was the school where I learned everything I know and became everything I am. I will not dwell on the great event of Christmas 1886, with which you are already familiar. But the nearness of the cathedral allowed me daily to be its faithful visitor; and the Blessed Virgin, in order to force me, after a long struggle, to kiss the ground at her feet, wanted no other angels and not other ministers than her little white-robed servants (the children&#8217;s choir). </em></p><p><em>At least, every Lenten Friday <strong>I was able to tearfully kiss the relics of the Passion!&#8221;</strong></em></p></div><p>Fortunately, through the grace of God,  the intervention of Our Lady of Notre Dame, and the <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/news/for-this-french-priest-rushing-into-notre-dame-s-flames-was-part-of-his-mission">bravery of Fr. Jean Marc Fournier, Catholic Chaplain of the Paris Fire Brigade,</a> and the firefighters, the precious Crown of Thorns, the relics of Our Lord&#8217;s Passion were rescued during the 2019 fire and can be venerated again during Lent at the restored Notre Dame de Paris. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aul9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96bbb063-eafd-400f-a547-31276baa1e94_480x360.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aul9!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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/__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96bbb063-eafd-400f-a547-31276baa1e94_480x360.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="text-align: center;">Paul Claudel at prayer</p><p></p><p>Paul Claudel enjoyed a highly prestigious career as a world renown diplomat, playwright and poet. As a result of his Notre Dame conversion, he practiced a lifelong daily spiritual routine which included morning mass, rosary, adoration, and vespers. </p><p>What secret of <em>&#8220;eternal innocence&#8221; </em>did Notre Dame whisper into the soul of Paul Claudel? What might that ancient Gothic sanctuary teach us about recovering the innocence that our secular age has forgotten and scorns?   Claudel, the man of lettres captures the essence of his conversion:</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;The Great Book open to me and in which I studied was the Church! Praised be forever that great and noble Mother at whose knees I learned everything I know! I spent all my Sundays at Notre-Dame, and stopped there as often as possible during the week. It was no long the poor language of devotional books, but the deepest and greatest poetry, the most august gestures ever entrusted to human beings. </em></p><p><em><strong>The sight of the mass was an endless source of inspiration to me, and each of the priest&#8217;s movements etched itself deeply into my mind and heart. Little by little, slowly and laboriously, there took shape in my heart the idea that art and poetry were also divine, and that the pleasures of the flesh, far from being necessary to these great pursuits, are actually detrimental to them.&#8221; </strong></em></p></div><p>What happened to Paul Claudel during that December dusk in Notre Dame? Was it merely what he heard&#8212;or did the entire cathedral seem to speak to him? Did all his senses converge upon that extraordinary moment: the incense hanging in the nave, the ancient stone rising around him, the stained glass rose windows filtering the evening light, the organ and the voices filling the vastness above? Was this the<em><strong> &#8220;symphony of stone&#8221; </strong></em>that Victor Hugo so memorably evoked&#8212;a cathedral whose architecture seemed not merely to surround the soul, but to possess it? </p><p>Or was something far more mysterious taking place?</p><p>Did Claudel enter that rarefied air of the Gothic nave as a skeptic and emerge from it confronted by something he could neither explain nor escape? What his intellect had resisted, beauty made suddenly impossible to ignore. Could the mystery of Claudel&#8217;s conversion lie in a Cathedral that overwhelmed him. </p><p>Was this, then the secret language of Notre Dame: a language spoken not to the mind but to the senses, the imagination, and finally to the soul? </p><p>What did Claudel hear in that music that the rest of us have forgotten to hear?</p><p>Did the innocent voices of the children&#8217;s choir pierce through the defenses of a young man who had rejected faith, transporting him&#8212;if only for an instant beyond the visible world into the presence of the divine?  </p><p>Was it the purity and luminosity of the innocent voices of children which filled the cathedral that touched the heart and soul of Claudel and initiated his conversion? Did the humble and enchanting lyrics of  <em>The Canticle of Mary, </em>her Magnificat jolt the cynical intellectual from his skepticism?  </p><p>The very cathedral, that more than a century later, would stand blackened and consumed by a raging fire first burned the fire of faith into an agnostic 19th century teenager. Paul Claudel&#8217;s soul was set ablaze and restored to him as the innocence of a child of God.  For the rest of his long life, he spoke and wrote about his Notre Dame conversion.  He was forever a changed man.</p><p>However unusual Claudel&#8217;s conversion experience, it serves as an uplifting tale for a world racked by secularism and godless pursuits. Like so many modern agnostics, Claudel was searching for answers, for truth, and for peace in a world of cold chaos and empty nihilism.</p><p>Paul Claudel, Catholic, father, husband, diplomat, poet, playwright died On Monday, February 23, 1955. His body was brought to his beloved Notre Dame Cathedral and placed near the pillar where he had found his conversion to the Catholic faith.   During the funeral, his much loved <em>Magnificat</em> was sung by the children&#8217;s choir-the one first heard by Claudel on Christmas Day, 1886. Claudel loved the innocent voices of the children&#8217;s choir and loved to hear the choir almost every Sunday when he was in Paris. The eulogy was delivered by the French Minister of Education, Jean Berthoin, who captured the love and admiration of the French people for Paul Claudel and his love of Notre Dame:</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><strong>&#8220;Between Earth and Heaven, Paul Claudel built a kind of cathedral with unshakable buttresses whose spires, although soaring out of sight, always remain accessible to a movement of the heart. As long as there are men who suffer and hope, they will all meet, be they believers or not, in this sanctuary of invigorating poetry, there to meditated on this eternal truth: every soul which rises, raises the world with it.&#8221; </strong></p></div><p>On April 15, 2019, despite a conflagration of epic proportions, the buttresses of Notre Dame Cathedral held strong and steady among the roaring flames and the gusts of wind. It was nothing short of a miracle. Also, the marble plaque marking the spot of Paul Claudel&#8217;s conversion survived the fire still rests near Our Lady&#8217;s statue in the restored Notre Dame Cathedral.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J_-G!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fae25d01b-041a-49c7-a190-6e0f7d5a2482_550x366.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J_-G!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fae25d01b-041a-49c7-a190-6e0f7d5a2482_550x366.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J_-G!, 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The stones have been raised from the ashes. The wounds have been repaired. Notre Dame stands again. Yet one haunting question remains amid the ashes of what was lost: </p><p><strong>Can the faith that originally built Notre Dame also be restored and reborn? </strong></p><p><strong>Can a civilization that has forgotten the meaning of innocence recover what it once knew instinctively&#8212;the eternal innocence of childhood, the sacredness of the human person, and the transcendent beauty that points beyond this world? </strong></p><p>The cathedral has been rebuilt. Yet,  the lingering question is whether Christian civilization can be rebuilt?</p><p>The final eulogy delivered at Claudel&#8217;s burial plot by his friend, Jean-Louis Barrault provides a pathway:</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em><strong>&#8220;In Paul Claudel, there was never a break between earthly reality and the mystery of God. God and the little grain of sand are closely connected, they hold one another by the hand. Your works are a deep nest in which already three generations have found a haven. </strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Priest and poet have comparable vocations since they bring forth the life giving sap out of the sterility of materialism. Your work is that of a young man. You enlisted in the army of your church without losing any of your lucidity, of your innovating and indeed revolutionary nature.</strong></em></p></div><p>Does a fire still burn in our civilization for the innocence of childhood? </p><p>Will our Cathedrals once again become places of divine worship, rather than art museums and stages for rock concerts? </p><p>Will they continue to burn and end up in a pile of  ashes and be hollowed out?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mBUL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0407e645-af2a-4dc2-bf21-308cd221dfba_900x651.avif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mBUL!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, 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Grift of Synodality, Interfaith Dialogue, EcoTheology.Stay ahead of the Modernist Propaganda.]]></description><link>https://lizyore.substack.com/p/china-and-the-scandalous-secret-vatican</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lizyore.substack.com/p/china-and-the-scandalous-secret-vatican</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Yore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:01:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_6Ng!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc799d928-88fc-4a45-aa44-a110b883f03e_1168x784.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4 style="text-align: center;">The Vatican&#8217;s Scandalous China Syndrome</h4><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">#REPEAL THE DEAL</span></strong></h4><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">#RELEASE THE DETAILS</span></strong></h4><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">#REMOVE THE CCP BISHOPS</span></strong></h4><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">#RESTORE THE UNDERGROUND CHURCH</span></strong></h4><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">#FREE JIMMY LAI</span></strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_6Ng!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc799d928-88fc-4a45-aa44-a110b883f03e_1168x784.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_6Ng!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, 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</strong><em><strong>ACQUIESCENCE AND SUBMISSION,</strong></em><strong> dressed up as Diplomacy and Synodality Under the </strong><em><strong>Unity</strong></em><strong> banner.  The monstrous deal should be repealed, all details revealed and all CCP bishops removed. </strong></p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1SPh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe18afbf5-e8ad-4133-83ee-2ec347a73bc3_1536x1024.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1SPh!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe18afbf5-e8ad-4133-83ee-2ec347a73bc3_1536x1024.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1SPh!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_848, 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href="https://www.amazon.com/Love-People-Will-Remain-Silent/dp/162164314X/ref=sr_1_5?crid=1SA2TFW61OWT1&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.QpWTxTioNcifHbjk-756uUWa2Q0t-dBwUwt9RDf8zCRyjs6YfzAcHK8m9dts_vgoOSeEX_T0zergtrVcU8bO1_qes9CT4VkCTKD9YfvnwACxq7CgT0jfY9ZiJXD2trUVAf1eLpQYYMZlyCM4gz7DnLGvuGmf8DJqO7aUuIXv0nGJ9oQAG_biXIev2UVKtTPB1qS_QYF6PfKB6R_y7CDZSysVn0d39PKwS9YIMckar_Y.MouF6SmlcxmRuKPV8b7P_eQbt4-llTpwveyN2Va_BFU&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=china+and+the+church&amp;qid=1784998719&amp;sprefix=china+and+the+church%2Caps%2C157&amp;sr=8-5">For the Love of My People I will not remain Silent:</a> On the Situation of the Church in China. Cardinal Joseph Zen.</strong></em></p></li><li><p><em><strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ignatius-Life-Cardinal-Kung-Pin-Mei/dp/1489550666/ref=sr_1_1?crid=GPLOG8LXMORC&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.nsfvoXMY1gn5aYpryvyvaXk0QfVkKkna9gNDsRV7yuYn00MUg9w5mLq_VOfGzaGruJ3SnKNoP5ORYjQg2ivL9ncTcF_SGyxDRU56l2FUD3Y.vFNqUPR86Dqhep1hYQtNTmNaHd1kF_Cg52xBEATzTmU&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=the+life+of+ignatius+kung&amp;qid=1784999290&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=the+life+of+ignatius+kung%2Cstripbooks%2C141&amp;sr=1-1">Ignatius: </a>The Life of Cardinal Ignatius Kung,</strong></em> <em>by Msgr.  Stephen DiGiovanni</em></p></li><li><p><em><strong><a href="https://bitterwinter.org/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=11726773838&amp;gbraid=0AAAAAC6C3Pd3m3AEvwKrtV8rulkgy4XZX&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwvZHTBhAlEiwA1ug5P87Qu6T-NBFS3LBEDVMqOzKqJZrJQt1RxQQDHFgrmrGB3wqhpVsJQRoCDCcQAvD_BwE">Bitter Winter-Daily Newsletter</a></strong></em></p></li><li><p><em><strong><a href="https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/culture_society/china-underground-catholics/">The Precarious Situation of China&#8217;s Underground Catholics</a></strong></em></p></li><li><p><em><strong><a href="http://www.cardinalkungfoundation.org/">The Cardinal Kung Foundation</a></strong></em></p></li><li><p><em><strong><a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/04/15/china-pressure-on-catholics-escalates">Human Rights Watch</a></strong></em></p></li><li><p><strong>2025</strong> <strong><a href="https://www.cecc.gov/sites/evo-subsites/cecc.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/shea_written-cecc-testimony.pdf">Testimony by Nina Shea </a>before  </strong>T<strong>HE CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA ON China&#8217;s War on Religion: </strong><em>The Threat to Religious Freedom and Why it Matters to the United States The Situation Facing the Catholic Church in China</em> NOVEMBER 20, 2025</p></li><li><p><em><strong><a href="https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2025-09/2025%20Factsheet%20China%27s%20Persecution%20of%20Religious%20Leaders.pdf">U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom: Fact Sheet On Catholicism in China</a></strong></em></p></li></ol><h4><strong>Papal Encyclicals on the Catholic Church in China</strong></h4><ol><li><p><em><strong>Encyclical: <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_07101954_ad-sinarum-gentem.html">Ad Sinarum Gentem</a></strong><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_07101954_ad-sinarum-gentem.html">,</a></em> Pope Pius XII&#8217;s on the Supra Nationality of the Church, October 7, 1954</p></li><li><p><em><strong><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_29061958_ad-apostolorum-principis.html">Encyclical: Ad Apostolorum Principis</a>, Pope Pius XII&#8217;s On Communism and the Church in China, June 29, 1958</strong></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Kjyg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0cd10087-97ba-4e18-946d-50c6d62171eb_1000x398.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Kjyg!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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href="https://ewtn.co.uk/vod-chinas-persecution-nina-shea-frances-hui-the-world-over-with-raymond-arroyo-may-7-2026/">CHINA&#8217;S ONGOING PERSECUTION</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://youtu.be/JGO0RMut6rc?is=ituE3kh5y-VbkOyD">STEVE MOSHER ON THE CHURCH IN CHINA</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I74Lopbh3WE">ROME CAVES TO THE CCP</a></p></li></ol></li></ol><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zb4E!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F224b266b-16c5-4411-a3d1-f6d0b3593952_1248x832.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zb4E!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, 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style="text-align: center;"><strong><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">#REMOVE THE CCP BISHOPS</span></strong></h4><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">#RESTORE THE UNDERGROUND CHURCH</span></strong></h4><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">#FREE JIMMY LAI</span></strong></h4><h4 style="text-align: center;"></h4><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The MINSTREL OF MIGRATION: "The Rain in Spain" falls mainly on Leo's Refrain. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Leo's frenzied promotion of illegal immigration backfired spectacularly when 60,000 Moroccan invaders landed in Ceuta, Spain.]]></description><link>https://lizyore.substack.com/p/the-minstrel-of-migration-the-rain</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lizyore.substack.com/p/the-minstrel-of-migration-the-rain</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Yore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:06:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dlqF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2bf994a3-faec-4db2-a1d8-e8b1ac3f9fd4_1402x1122.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dlqF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2bf994a3-faec-4db2-a1d8-e8b1ac3f9fd4_1402x1122.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dlqF!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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dignity. </strong>You are not just numbers or files. You are people who have left behind families and homes. You have dreams that no one has the right to despise. However, I also want to tell you that your lives must be protected.&#8221; </em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>Leo XIV, June 12, 2026, Canary Islands, Spain Immigration Center. </em></p></div><p>Four weeks after <a href="https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/leo-to-canary-islands-migrants-i-bow-before-your-dignity/">Leo&#8217;s impassioned speech</a> to illegal immigrants on the Canary Islands of Spain,  60,000 young Moroccan military age men from a 99% Muslim country stormed the beaches of Ceuta, Spain. The massive invasion was captured on social media as the young men rampaged throughout the town, burning cars, looting stores, breaking into houses, attacking citizens, creating chaos, terror and mayhem. They weren&#8217;t fleeing a war torn country. Nor were they were <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-10/pope-leo-s-call-to-action-on-behalf-of-migrants-and-refugees.html">victims of climate change</a>. Nor were they victims of drought or poverty. In fact, many claimed that they left behind jobs in Morocco. Which prompt the following serious questions to the traveling <em>Minstrel of Migration,</em> Robert Prevost aka Leo XIV. </p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lizyore.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading YoreChildren Newsletter! 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17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p>Leo, <em><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Do you bow down</span></em> to the ravaging invaders who climbed apartment balconies and broke into homes?</p><p>Leo, <em><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Do you bow down </span></em><span>to the ravaging invaders who burned cars?</span></p><p><span>Leo, </span><em><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Do you bow down</span></em><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span><span>to the human traffickers that organized that invasion?</span></p><p><span>Leo, </span><em><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Do you bow down </span><span>to the Ceutans who are trapped in their homes too terrified to leave? </span></em></p><p><em><span>Leo, </span><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Do you bow down </span></em><span>to the ravaging invaders who are stealing and destroying property?</span></p><p><em><span>Leo, </span><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Do you bow down </span></em>to the Muslim invaders shouting &#8220;Allahu Akbar&#8221; as they taken over the Ceuta streets?</p><p>Leo, <em><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Do you bow down</span></em> to the invaders that completely overwhelmed the Spanish police and military with violence in the streets of Ceuta?</p><p>Leo, <em><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Do you bow down</span></em> to the invaders who assaulted Ceuta&#8217;s residents?</p><p>Leo, <em><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Do you bow down</span></em><span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span><span>to the ongoing muslim invasion of Europe?</span></p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n_Fy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c7b8479-959e-48e2-9933-5c514efda234_480x269.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n_Fy!, 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17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Leo&#8217;s rabid and relentless crusade for open borders and mass illegal immigration in Spain just detonated in their faces. Leo is leading the charge to bless immigrants, moralize illegal immigration and browbeat governments into accepting the full scale Muslim invasion of Catholic Spain and Europe.  Tens of thousands of military age men surged across in a single day, overwhelming a Spanish city, leaving bodies floating in the water, and forcing the Spanish army into the Ceuta streets to restore order.</p><p>It appears that <a href="http://prayed that the Holy Spirit would &#8220;open borders, break down walls&#8221;">Leo&#8217;s migrant messaging </a>that the Holy Spirit would <em>&#8220;open borders and break down walls&#8221;</em> tragically floundered in Ceuta <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/02/world-news/ceuta-border-storming-death-toll-at-72-after-50k-migrants-attempt-to-enter-spanish-enclave/">with at least 72 deaths</a> during the invasion by sea. This same Vatican that condemns a preference for national sovereignty as a <em><a href="https://www.aciafrica.org/news/11841/intentionally-hurting-migrants-is-a-grave-sin-pope-francis">&#8220;grave sin&#8221;</a></em> and brands every border a <em>&#8220;wall of indifference&#8221;</em> (<em>except the Vatican 37 foot wall)</em>  has now watched the consequences of that theological policy collide with reality on the shores of Ceuta, Spain. </p><p>This ongoing civilization experiment continues to fail spectacularly. The question left is whether anyone in Rome has the spine to admit their own catastrophic misjudgment and role in the chaos. Apparently, not.</p><h4><strong>Leo peddles the deceptive argument </strong><em><strong>&#8220;let&#8217;s pray for the end of war&#8221; </strong></em></h4><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><span>At his Noon Angelus Address, Leo referenced the emergency in Ceuta, calling it: </span>&#8220;<em><strong>ALARMING SITUATION IN CEUTA, SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE, STABILITY AND JUSTICE MAY BE FOUND.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>&#8220;LET US CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR PEACE, <span data-color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">THAT WARS MAY CEASE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD</span> AND THAT DIPLOMATIC SOLUTIONS TO CONFLICTS MAY BE FOUND.&#8221; IN A SPECIAL WAY HE REMEMBERED VICTIMS OF HOSTILITIES, ESPECIALLY THE WEAKEST AND MOST DEFENSELESS, THE CHILDREN, ELDERLY AND THE SICK.&#8221;</strong></em></p></div><h4 style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>NEWS FLASH to LEO-THE MINSTREL OF MIGRATION: </strong></em></h4><p><em><strong>~THERE IS NO WAR IN MOROCCO TO FLEE FROM.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>~THERE WERE ONLY MILITARY AGE YOUNG MEN AMONG THE INVADERS FROM THE 99% MUSLIM COUNTRY OF MOROCCO.</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>~ THERE WERE NO &#8220;WOMEN, ELDERLY, SICK, OR DEFENSELESS CHILDREN&#8221; PRESENT IN THE CEUTA INVASION. <span data-color="rgb(251, 2, 7)" style="color: rgb(251, 2, 7);"> </span></strong></em></p><p><em><strong><span>~LIKE SO MANY INVASIONS, THIS WAS STRATEGICALLY PLANNED, ORGANIZED THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA TO A TARGETED POPULATION OF MUSLIM YOUNG MEN FOR THE PURPOSE OF MUSLIM INFILTRATION AND DOMINATION INTO CHRISTIAN EUROPE.</span></strong></em></p><p><em><strong><span>~</span><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/08/04/report-migrants-convicted-in-spain-for-jihadism-detected-among-ceuta-invasion-swarm/"><span>LATEST NEWS FROM CEUTA</span></a><span> REPORT THAT AMONG THE INVADERS WERE ISLAMIC TERRORISTS WHO HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY DEPORTED.  </span></strong></em></p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>SPANISH BISHOPS RESPONSE</strong></em></h4><p>Not surprisingly the Spanish Bishops are in multicultural lockstep with the globalist <em><strong>&#8220;I bow before your dignity&#8221;</strong></em><strong> Leo.</strong><em><strong> </strong></em>The Spanish Bishops warned of politicizing the migrant issue and called for a humanitarian response to the crisis, which prompt questions of the Vatican: </p><p><em><strong>Leo, Did you instruct the Spanish Bishops to force every parish in the town of Ceuta to donate 100% of their collections this weekend to the invading army?</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Leo, Did you approve the statement of the Spanish Bishops who sided with the invaders?</strong></em></p><h4 style="text-align: center;">The Vatican is doubling down and siding with the invaders</h4><p>Once again, the Leo Vatican is on the wrong side of history. The mass invasion of illegal muslim migrants into Christian Europe calls for strong resistance from the Holy See.  Yet, Leo grandstands at migrant gateways at Italy&#8217;s Lampedusa and Spain&#8217;s Canary Islands, posing as the merciful apologist for lawbreakers.  This papal pandering will rage on without end, a grotesque spectacle of perpetual prostration as he genuflects before his globalist overlords-the very powers that despise Christ. </p><p>Leo, the Minstrel of Migration will continue serenading the age of mass migration, with his globalist anthem, as Europe burns and Christianity is driven ever closer to extinction on its historic heartland. </p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lizyore.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading YoreChildren Newsletter! 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/__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F979cf2d8-80fb-4ebf-a571-3a1c1c5cf994_1254x1254.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;No, it is innocence that is full, and experience that is empty.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>It is innocence that wins, and experience that loses.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lizyore.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading YoreChildren Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><em>It is innocence that increases, and experience that decreases.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>It is innocence that is born, and experience that dies.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>It is innocence that knows, and experience that does not know.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>It is the child who is full, and the man who is empty.</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>So that, says God, that&#8217;s what I think of your &#8216;experience.&#8217;&#8221;</em></p><p style="text-align: right;">~~<em><span>The Portal of the Mystery of Hope</span></em>, Charles Peguy</p><p>The Oxford dictionary records that the word <em><strong>innocence </strong></em>is becoming virtually extinct in common English usage. Words do not simply vanish by accident; they disappear when the values they once expressed are abandoned. The eclipse of <em>innocence </em>from our vocabulary may be the linguistic obituary of a civilization that has forgotten the priceless gift it was meant to protect.<em> </em>A word fades from the language when the culture that gave it life no longer prizes its meaning. </p><p><em>When<strong> Innocence</strong></em> is banished from the vernacular, it is soon banished from the conscience.  A virtue that is mocked, neglected or ignored withers on the cultural vine. Signs abound that the verbal assault on innocence will be soon targeted for total extinction.  As George Orwell sardonically observed, <em>&#8220;it&#8217;s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.&#8221;</em></p><p>When innocence disappears from our vocabulary, it soon disappears from our priorities, our lives and consciousness. A virtue that is no longer named is no longer pursued; a virtue that is no longer celebrated is no longer defended. Cultures do not preserve what they refuse to value, and they rarely value what they cease to speak about. Innocence will be recovered only when we restore it to our language, reclaim it as an indispensable virtue, and embue our families, our institutions, and our laws toward its uncompromising protection.  </p><p>Few Americans realize that the virtue of <em><strong>innocence </strong></em>is embodied in the sacred ceremony of the <a href="https://americanflag.com/pages/home-flag-folding-ceremony">folding of the American Flag</a> during the solemn burials of patriots. Significantly, the eighth fold of the American flag represents <em><strong>innocence,</strong></em> honoring those who served without evil intent and it also pays tribute to George Washington. The explanation of its importance is moving and noteworthy. <strong> </strong><em>Innocence</em> is firmly rooted in the meaning of the <strong>Eighth Fold of the United States of America Flag:</strong> </p><ul><li><p><strong>Innocence</strong>: Means being free from sin and evil.</p></li><li><p><strong>Service</strong>: Honors people who work for freedom with a pure heart.</p></li><li><p><strong>George Washington</strong>: Reminds us of his famous words about his love for the country. <em>&#8220;The love of my country will be the ruling influence of my conduct.&#8221;</em></p></li></ul><p>Perhaps that is why the symbolism resonates so deeply. The soldier&#8217;s final tribute is not simply to victory, but to virtue. A nation that honors innocence beside the coffin of its heroes acknowledges that innocence is among the highest good of the Republic. If patriots have been willing to die to preserve it, then citizens must be willing to protect it. The defense of innocence is not peripheral to American patriotism; it is one of the noblest expressions of our national identity.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>What happened to Us&#8212;to Innocence Lost?</strong></p><p>Modern society failed to recognize the obvious unique vulnerability of children, resulting in a relinquishment of a duty to protect them. </p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;Children then are not adults in miniature. They are beings per se, different from their elders in their mental nature, their functioning, their understanding of events, and their reactions to them. &#8220; </em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Beyond the Best Interests of the Child.&#8221;</em></p><p style="text-align: right;"><em>~</em>Anna Freud, Joseph Goldstein, Albert J. Solnit</p></div><p>Seemingly, we are awash in sexual scandals with children brutally robbed of their innocence by the rich and powerful, our institutions, and the community-all those entrusted entities which should have protected them.  Think only of the daily news drumbeat of drag queen story hour, highly sexualized pre-school curriculum, naked pride parades, gender mania, sex infused media and sports. </p><p>Did consumerism do more than commercialize products&#8212;did it commercialize childhood itself? When everything is assigned a market value, children risk becoming commodities to be exploited, trafficked, marketed, discarded, and consumed rather than human beings to be cherished, protected, and loved. The revenue stream for a pimp of a trafficked child is $200,000 per year. The younger the child, the more profit a trafficker makes. This fungible human product can be repeatedly resold around the world. In such a culture, childhood itself becomes vulnerable to commodification. Babies bred and purchased for surrogacy. Aborted fetal baby parts sold to universities, big pharma, and medical research. The fetal tissue marketplace is as lucrative as the black market for child sexual exploitation. </p><p>Modernity declared all out war on children. The global elite demand<s><span>ed</span></s> that children be aborted, exploited, silenced, trafficked, killed, euthanized, sterilized, transitioned, corrupted, pornified, cloned, groomed, sexualized, surrogated, genitally mutilated, bio-engineered, harvested, drugged, regendered, transgendered, bigendered, sold, sliced and diced for body parts, for vaccines, for experimentation, drugged and sacrificed on the demonic high altar of depopulation. </p><p>In the prescient words of Fr. Malachi Martin,<strong> </strong><em><strong>SATAN IS ON THE MARCH</strong> </em>and the elite are in lockstep as they snuff out life, obliterate innocence, dismantle the family, and destroy freedom by engaging in modern slavery.</p><p>Innocence is no longer treasured as a gift to be cherished, guarded, and prolonged. When everything acquires a price, nothing remains sacred.  Children cease to be regarded as unique precious individuals and become objects of adult desire, commercial interest, ideological agendas or criminal enterprises. A society that puts a price on everything eventually risks recognizing the intrinsic worth of nothing.  </p><p>History repeatedly demonstrates that the greatest child abuse scandals were not sustained merely by the depravity of individual offenders, but by cultures of denial, deference, institutional self  protection, and fear of exposing uncomfortable truths. The common denominator was not simply the predator; it was the failure of those with the authority to intervene. </p><p>Whether the perpetrators were the UK Pakistani rape gangs, Belgium&#8217;s Marc Dutroux,  Jimmy Savile of the BBC, Jeffrey Epstein or Catholic clergy, a striking pattern emerges. Warnings were ignored-intentionally so? Victims were dismissed or discredited, whistleblowers were marginalized and vile crimes went unpunished. Officials feared reputational damage, political consequences, legal liability or professional reprisal. 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17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>350,000 Belgians in the White March for the Innocence of the Children, October 20, 1996, protesting the Belgian government&#8217;s cover up in the case of  serial pedophile and murderer Marc Dutroux </strong></em></p><p>The enduring lesson of these scandals is both sobering and universal: child abuse becomes systemic not simply because evil exists, but because institutions fail to confront it. When protecting reputations takes precedence over protecting children, predators gain time, victims lose hope, and justice is delayed, or denied. Every cover up, every ignored warning, every act of intimidation against whistleblowers extends the life of abuse.  Something even deeper and more sinister is at play in the culture as evil is no longer recognized and truth is devalued, as outmoded and irrelevant. To confront either requires a heavy cost&#8212;courageous action&#8212;a cost society is no longer willing to take. </p><p>The sad and plaintive cries from the lost boys of William Golding&#8217;s <em>Lord of the Flies </em>reverberate in the damage of modernity&#8217;s abandonment of children: </p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;There aren&#8217;t any grownups. We shall have to look after ourselves. &#8230;Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man&#8217;s heart, and the fall through the air.&#8221; </em></p></div><p>Ultimately, evil filled the void left by a culture that abandoned God. The great French author George Bernanos observed that the <em>&#8220;Christian West has lost its child&#8217;s heart.&#8221;   </em>It has lost its child&#8217;s heart because it has lost God. In his stirring novel, <em>The Diary of a Country Priest,</em> Bernanos plaintively described the duty of the Church to protect childhood: </p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>God has entrusted the Church to keep [the soul of childhood] alive, to safeguard our candour and freshness... Joy is the gift of the Church, whatever joy is possible for this sad world to share... What would it profit you even to create life itself, when you have lost all sense of what life really is?&#8221;</em><br>&#8213; <strong>Georges Bernanos, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1174195">The Diary of a Country Priest</a></strong></p></div><p>Perhaps, there is no more devastating commentary on our age than that one of humanity&#8217;s most sacred virtues has been exiled from our language, diminished in our culture, and relegated to the status of  an obsolete expression.  Yet the human price and toll of innocence lost is far more than an outdated expression; it indicates the collapse of a moral order that no longer recognizes childhood as sacred or worthy of its fiercest protection. It signals the moral impoverishment of a civilization that has forgotten its first duty&#8212;to protect its children.  </p><p>This is the measure of a nation&#8217;s conscience, the depth of its moral failures, and the lasting burden carried by those whose childhood was stolen before it had a chance to bloom. It is an unmistakable warning of a society in moral retreat,  a civilization that has ceased to recognize the protection of its children as its highest and most sacred obligation. Every child whose innocence is stolen leaves behind a wound that scars not only the victim, but  the conscience of an entire nation. </p><p>How is the loss captured? How is the damage measured? The marks are buried in a myriad of ways, seen and unseen on society, on families, and most especially on the victims who are robbed of their potential to succeed and be happy. </p><p>Statistics can count the crimes; they cannot count what was taken. They cannot measure the child who never fulfilled her potential, the family that never recovered, the trust that was never restored, or the immeasurable gifts to society that died with stolen innocence. Some losses defy arithmetic because they are measured not in numbers, but in human destiny. Statistics record offenses; they do not record the future that was stolen. Our future is bereft of both children and the magic of their innocence. </p><p>The defining question of every institution is therefore not whether evil can enter its ranks, but whether it possesses the moral courage to expose it, confront it, and eradicate it before more children are harmed.</p><p>Take off the blinders. Awake to the horror that failure to protect our most vulnerable comes at a huge price.</p><p><span>What becomes of a society that repeatedly betrays its children? What harvest can be expected when innocence is violated, trust is shattered, and those entrusted with protection fail in their duty?  Are we witnessing the bitter consequences of generations robbed of childhood&#8212;wounds that echo through broken lives, fractured families, violence, addiction, despair, and endless cycles of abuse? A civilization that abandons its children should not be surprised when those unhealed wounds return to haunt its future. The wounds inflicted on children do not remain in childhood; they reverberate across generations and leave their mark on the conscience of an entire civilization.</span></p><p><span>Finally, Bernanos issued a warning that must be heeded by modernity:  </span></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em><span>&#8220;The world shall be judged by children. The spirit of childhood shall judge the world. Christians, who listen to me--that is your peril! It is difficult to follow upon a society that has foundered in laughter, because even the fragments will be useless. You will have to build it all up again. You will have to build it up under the eyes of children. Become as children yourselves. They have found the chink in your armor, and you will never disarm their irony save by simplicity, honesty and audacity. You will never disarm them save by heroism.&#8221;</span></em></p></div><p><em><span>"And Jesus said: 'Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.&#8221; </span></em><strong><span>Matthew 18:3.</span></strong><span> </span></p><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lizyore.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading YoreChildren Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rape of Britain's Children: Generations of Innocence Stolen]]></title><description><![CDATA[UK Rape Gang Report exposes decades-long reign of predatory barbarism that shattered the innocence of generations of young British girls.]]></description><link>https://lizyore.substack.com/p/the-rape-of-britains-children-generations</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lizyore.substack.com/p/the-rape-of-britains-children-generations</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Yore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:59:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lDe_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb456c6d4-eaee-406b-8bd1-c6f3babf2c30_1074x1280.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>While the world is full of troubles</span><br><span>And anxious in its sleep.</span><br><span>Come away, O human child!</span><br><span>To the waters and the wild</span><br><span>With a faery, hand in hand,</span><br><span>For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.</span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span>~</span><em><strong><span>The Stolen Child, </span></strong></em> by W.B. Yeats</p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lDe_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb456c6d4-eaee-406b-8bd1-c6f3babf2c30_1074x1280.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lDe_!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb456c6d4-eaee-406b-8bd1-c6f3babf2c30_1074x1280.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lDe_!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_848, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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The report entitled,  </span><strong><a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6810978a41bbc42489eafa81/t/6a314bb1151e511944bd4421/1781615537601/The+Rape+Gang+Inquiry+Report.pdf"><span>Rape Gang Inquiry Report</span></a><span> was </span></strong><span>issued on June 16, 2026 with the critical involvement of Rotherham survivor, Sammy Woodhouse</span>. The inquiry was crowdfunded with funding from over 20,000 UK citizens in the amount of 764,000 pounds, with a public hearing featuring testimony from survivors, whistleblowers, experts, and investigators. The 219-page document details decades of systemic child sexual exploitation of at least 250,000  girls across the United Kingdom who were subjected to gang rape, trafficking, and forced conversions by Pakistani grooming rape gangs. </p><p>Although the first grooming gang scandal was exposed in 2003, little was done for years to meaningfully address the child exploitation scandal until the <a href="https://www.rotherham.gov.uk/downloads/download/31/independent-inquiry-into-child-sexual-exploitation-in-rotherham-1997-2013-">2014 Jay Report, </a>which investigated child sexual exploitation in the city of Rotherham in north-central England and found that 1400 children were sexually abused between 1997 and 2013 by Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1874664089894695221?s=43">Elon Musk- the Catalyst for Exposing the Breadth of the Scandal</a></strong></p><p>After decades of political and media cover up of the UK grooming rape scandals, the lid was finally blown off. <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1874664089894695221?s=43">On January 1, 2025,  Elon Musk </a>posted about the grooming gang scandal on X and accused UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer of being complicit in grooming gangs. The scandal could no longer be contained or suppressed now that Musk had set his sights on the UK crisis.  </p><p><span>The Lowe Report estimates that at least 250,000 white British girls throughout 149 Councils were groomed, raped, exploited. Lowe found that </span><em><span>&#8220;every corner of the country&#8221;</span></em><span> was affected and impacted by the</span><em><span> &#8220;failure of British establishment&#8221;</span></em><span> to address the rampant sexual exploitation of minor children, primarily girls, but also boys. </span></p><p><span>The Report found that 95% of abusers were Pakistani Muslims. Grooming was perpetrated on vulnerable poor white girls, some who were in state care, via drugs, alcohol, blackmail, and racial/religious abuse.</span></p><p>The report described a <em>&#8220;catastrophic, decades-long institutional failure&#8221;</em> within the UK establishment and focused on how local authorities, the police, schools, social services, and hospitals ignored the abuse out of fear of being labeled racist or politically incorrect. During the 16 month investigation, MP Lowe heard testimony from victim girls whom he described as subjected to <em>&#8220;pure unfettered evil&#8221;</em>. </p><p>Brace yourself to weep, gasp in horror and seethe with fury as the report exposes Britain&#8217;s darkest scandal&#8212;an indictment that will leave you shuddering at the barbarity of the perpetrators, and the utter failure to stop it. </p><p>At long last, the breadth and depth of nightmare gripping Britain for over 30 years is emerging. Gasp in horror over the blood thirsty brutality.  Digest every word as it lays bare the destruction of innocence, and the utter incompetence and callousness of authorities to stop it.  While these are Britain&#8217;s girls, they represent all the girls who fall prey to brutality of Pakistani Muslim men, utterly devoid of humanity. </p><p>For decades, British girls endured unimaginable malevolence and the equal cruelty of indifference. The numbers boggle the mind: conservatively, at least 250,000 girls, and as high as 1 million were victims of primarily Pakistani rape gangs who prowled the streets of Britain hunting down vulnerable prey.  How could this happen?  For so long? Why didn&#8217;t it stop after the first child victim reported the crime? Seemingly, everyone knew.  Yet, Britons are left with the nagging question in abuse scandals: Which is worse-the abuse or the callous systemic coverup which allowed it to flourish? What is more scandalous, the powerful who ignored this barbarity or the powerful who preyed upon innocent girls? Who is more culpable?  The unimaginable must be acknowledged: MP Rupert Lowe demonstrated that the gangs <em>&#8220;operated with either the active or passive consent of public authorities&#8221;.</em></p><p><strong>Perhaps the greatest indictment of all is this: the British public had to crowdfund the truth. </strong>Citizens paid out of their own pockets to uncover what the report called <em>&#8220;a rotting stain on our country&#8217;s history&#8221; </em>a truth their own institutions had failed to bring to light. Ordinary citizens&#8212;not the state,  paid to expose one of the nation&#8217;s gravest moral failures. </p><p>This except from the Rape Gang Report describe the extent of the horror and the failure to protect these victims:</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4><em><strong>&#8220;The crimes stretch back generations. The Rape Gang Inquiry was necessary because the state and its institutions have failed catastrophically over decades. Police, social services, schools, the NHS, licensing authorities, and governments allowed these gangs to operate with impunity. There was a demonstrable lack of political will to confront them.&#8221;</strong></em></h4></div><p>Without fear or favor, the perpetrators of this conspiracy are clearly named, blamed and shamed. Their victims are overwhelmingly vulnerable white British girls.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4><em><strong>&#8220;The Rape Gang Inquiry examined the systematic targeting of vulnerable girls, overwhelmingly White British, by predominantly Muslim Pakistani gangs across towns and cities throughout the United Kingdom. The evidence put to the Inquiry confirms that this scandal constitutes one of the most horrendous failures in the history of the country. </strong></em></h4><h4><em><strong>Organised networks of perpetrators built coordinated operations that transported victims between locations, supplied them with drugs and alcohol, recorded abuse for distribution and blackmail, and passed girls between multiple adult men. </strong></em></h4><h4><em><strong>These crimes have been committed for decades, since the 1950s by Pakistanis in particular, and have affected every region of our nation. The scale of the crimes committed is staggering. It has been previously established that, at the very least, 250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma.  The true number is probably higher.&#8221;</strong></em></h4></div><p>For many girls, this inquiry was the first time that victim survivors spoke out about their unspeakable abuse and grooming at the hands of organized Pakistani gangs.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4><em><strong>&#8220;The Inquiry heard harrowing testimony from survivors and their families. The method used to groom children typically followed the same process. Girls as young as 11 were initially befriended by a young Muslim man who then treated the young child like an adult and would then start providing them with alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes.&#8221; </strong></em></h4></div><p>The report demonstrated a pattern of organized criminal activity by an ethnic network of men harboring racist motivation who brutally preyed on children, deliberately targeting them for them race and religion.  </p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4><em><strong>After a few months the girls would then be collected from school gates, care homes, and streets in taxis. They were taken to houses, flats, restaurants, and hotels where they were raped repeatedly by groups of men, tortured, filmed for blackmail, and told they were &#8220;white trash&#8221; or &#8220;kuffar&#8221; who merited punishment. </strong></em></h4></div><p>The physical and emotional consequences of this sexual abuse brought unspeakable consequences to the child victims in the 149 Councils throughout nearly half the United Kingdom.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4><em><strong>&#8220;Many became pregnant while still children. Some miscarried under trauma, others endured coerced abortions, and some gave birth to children who were later removed by the state. We found that the same unspeakable crimes occurred in at least 149 local authority districts &#8211; close to 40% of all such districts across the United Kingdom.&#8221; </strong></em></h4></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4><em><strong>Survivors described daily rapes, &#8220;red rooms&#8221; of extreme torture, trafficking between cities, and institutional disbelief that compounded their suffering. Some girls were even trafficked to the Middle East where they would endure Islamic marriage.&#8221;</strong></em></h4></div><p><strong>Taylor, another victim </strong>reported:</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4><em><strong>&#8220;Before they raped me, they would chant &#8216;Bismillah Hir Rahman Nir Rahim.&#8217;&#8221;<br></strong></em></h4><h4><em><strong>(Translation: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful.)</strong></em></h4></div><p>Another victim, <strong>Eleanor,</strong> said:</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4><em><strong>&#8220;I had friends that were Muslim, girl friends, and this never happened to them. They would be in the cars with us sometimes, but the men would treat them differently.&#8221;</strong></em></h4></div><p><strong>Jen, another victim,</strong> explained:</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4><em><strong>&#8220;They have no compassion for the young girls that are out on the streets and they see us as slags, as white trash. &#8216;English pig dogs&#8217; came up a lot. Muslims don&#8217;t like pigs and they don&#8217;t like dogs. So they hate dogs, they hate pigs, and they&#8217;d put women on the same level as that.&#8221;</strong></em></h4></div><p>Yet another <strong>victim, Kate,</strong> said:</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4><em><strong>&#8220;Comments were constantly made suggesting that &#8216;white girls&#8217; and Christian girls were viewed as having fewer morals or lower value, whereas &#8216;Muslim girls&#8217; were described by some of the men as having dignity and higher moral standing. These comparisons were used to justify the way I was treated and to further humiliate and control me. </strong></em></h4><h4><em><strong>I was also subjected to religiously charged comments designed to shame and dehumanise me, including statements implying that God had abandoned me or would reject me because of what had been done to me.&#8221;</strong></em></h4></div><p>Activist Tommy Robinson was the first and persistent vocal critic of the grooming rape gangs and was mocked, silenced and threatened for his advocacy on behalf of the poor white girls. </p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;1877bb85-602a-404d-a972-70e222fe4219&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4><strong>Among the most disturbing testimonies cited by Lowe was of one survivor quoted as &#8220;saying that she got pregnant. &#8216;I was raped by probably 600 or 700 different men.&#8217;</strong></h4></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4><em><strong>&#8220;Another one described violence involving a child: &#8216;They put a cigarette out on the baby&#8217;s face.&#8221;</strong></em></h4></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4><em><strong>&#8220;Yet another survivor recalled: &#8216;He took the bottle of Jack Daniels and he forced it up inside me. I was about 12 or 13.&#8217;</strong></em></h4></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4><em><strong><span>&#8220;A survivor alleges rape by &#8216;multiple police officers&#8217; in different parts of the country. One survivor said that her Christian faith was mocked by her abusers. They allegedly said, &#8216;Where is your God now? Has your God forsaken you?&#8217;</span></strong></em></h4></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4><span>&#8220;One survivor said: </span><strong><span>&#8216;</span></strong><em><strong><span>Race DID play a part. Throughout my exploitation. The other girls I encountered or were abused alongside me, were almost all exclusively White.&#8217; </span></strong></em><strong><span>Another recalled seeing multiple girls being transported together:</span></strong><em><strong><span> &#8216;It was all White Girls. In a van. I remember seeing 15-20 girls locked in dog cages&#8217;.&#8221; (&#8220;&#8216;Put cigarette on face, raped by 600-700 different men..&#8217;: </span></strong></em></h4></div><p><span>Incredibly, the Lowe Report found that public authorities were frequently hesitant to discuss certain aspects of the offending patterns for fear of generating accusations of racism or inflaming social tensions. </span><em><strong>Perhaps, the greatest news blackout came from the British mainstream media, who has ignored this report, these victims, and their own complicity in the cover up. </strong></em></p><p><span>The British political commentator Douglas Murray captured the essence of this scandal: </span></p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The world has finally woken up this week to one of the biggest crimes in 21<sup>st</sup> century Britain: the organized gang rape of thousands of white working-class girls, mainly at the hands of Muslim men of Pakistani origin.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p><strong>In addition to the gut wrenching  testimony from victims and whistle-blowers, the report lays out a series of recommendations to address the scandal.</strong></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4>Overall Finding:<strong> </strong><em><strong>&#8220;Political correctness, fear of accusations of racism, and fear of losing electoral support from certain demographics have taken precedence over the protection of British children.</strong>&#8221;</em></h4></div><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Report Recommendations and Findings: </strong></h4><ol><li><p><strong>The report calls for an overhaul of the criminal justice system&#8217;s response to the scandal, with a restructuring of current sentencing guidelines, arguing that &#8220;Current sentencing guidelines are grotesquely inadequate for organised child rape.&#8221;</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>&#8220;The Sentencing Council must be required by statute to revise its guidelines so that group-based child sexual exploitation carries a starting point of life imprisonment, with a minimum tariff of 50 years for ringleaders and 25 years for participants.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>&#8220;Racial or religious motivation, multiple victims, trafficking across counties, pregnancy caused by rape, and use of filming or blackmail must each be spelled out as statutory aggravating factors that push sentences toward their maximum extent.&#8221;</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>&#8220;Every foreign national convicted of group-based Child Sexual Exploitation must at the very least be deported&#8221;, adding &#8220;Any British citizen convicted of these offences who holds dual nationality must lose their citizenship automatically upon conviction, rendering them liable for deportation&#8221;.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>On top of this, any family members who have &#8220;supported, harboured or failed to report the offending&#8221; must also face deportation proceedings themselves, unless they can prove &#8220;either active cooperation with authorities or no prior knowledge&#8221;.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>The report went on to say: &#8220;Evidence from witnesses, convictions, and the Casey Audit shows a clear overrepresentation of Muslim men, particularly of Pakistani heritage, in these organised networks. The Inquiry has not ignored this.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>&#8220;Mosques, madrassas, and community organisations that have harboured or failed to report perpetrators must face investigation and, if found guilty, be closed. The immediate deportation of anyone nested within such sub-cultures promoting attitudes that dehumanise non-Muslim girls must be pursued.</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>&#8220;Anyone from a country whose nationals are disproportionately represented in rape gang convictions must no longer be entitled to a visa. This should be applied ruthlessly.&#8221;</strong></p></li></ol><h4><strong>Next steps:</strong></h4><p>Here are the recommendations from the report. These include:</p><ul><li><p>Revising the sentencing guidelines for group-based sexual exploitation.</p></li><li><p>Deporting foreign nationals convicted of group-based CSE.</p></li><li><p>Setting up a dedicated unit in the Crown Prosecution Service to handle these cases.</p></li><li><p>A new Childhood Sexual Exploitation Act with a specific offence of &#8220;organised group-based child sexual exploitation.&#8221;</p></li><li><p>A statutory duty to publish ethnicity, immigration status, nationality and religion of both victims and perpetrators in all such cases.</p></li><li><p>No allowance that any child can ever consent to sexual abuse, and prosecutions for professionals who excuse child sexual activity as consensual.</p></li><li><p>Proven rapists should lose parental rights over children born as a result of rape.</p></li><li><p>Mandatory training for frontline professionals on group-based CSE.</p></li></ul><p><strong>Further Follow Up Planned by the Rupert Lowe Report:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Publishing the Inquiry&#8217;s full witness statements.</p></li><li><p>Seeking out further witness statements.</p></li><li><p>Naming in Parliament those found to have enabled rape gangs.</p></li><li><p>Initiating civil proceedings and private prosecutions where appropriate.</p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://www.gbnews.com/news/grooming-gangs-rupert-lowe-releases-independent-report">&#8220;</a></strong><a href="https://www.gbnews.com/news/grooming-gangs-rupert-lowe-releases-independent-report">The strongest possible penalties,</a> up to and including death, must also be sought for those yet to be properly punished or indeed punished at all for their vile, unspeakable crimes.&#8221;</p></li></ul><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Society leaves girls no choice</strong></h4><p>Unless significant institutional and societal reforms are immediately established and implemented to stop this widespread criminality, white girls around the world may have to take up arms to protect themselves, like this young Scottish girl. Her story and powerful image went viral after she defended herself from an attacker making lewd and menacing threats to her. 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Lessons need to be learned and prosecutions need to follow for the appalling cowardice of those responsible for refusing to resist such horrors.&#8221; </strong></em></p><p>The unspeakable barbarity exposed in the Rape Report has left wounds that time alone cannot heal. Its scars are borne not only by the victims and their families but by the conscience of an entire nation. Healing can occur if and when Britain has the courage to face the full truth of its failures and remove the conditions that permitted such evil to endure. Until then, this wound remains open&#8212;festering beneath the surface, poisoning public trust and crying out for justice. </p><p>The trauma of this grotesque barbarity leaves an indelible mark on the child victim. This targeted and organized criminality will only end, once British institutions acknowledge their utter failure and complicity in this scandal, resolving never to turn a blind eye again. As for the rest of the world? The lesson of Britain should wake us all up. Right now.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>I have walked and prayed for this young child an hour<br>And heard the sea-wind scream upon the tower,<br>And under the arches of the bridge, and scream<br>In the elms above the flooded stream;<br>Imagining in excited reverie<br>That the future years had come,<br>Dancing to a frenzied drum,<br>Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.</strong></em></p><p style="text-align: right;"><em>~Prayer for my Daughter, by W.B. Yeats</em></p><p style="text-align: right;"></p><h5>*Elizabeth Yore is an international child protection attorney who has spent 35 years fighting child exploitation, missing/abducted children and child trafficking. She searched for countless American children abducted from the United States to the Middle East by Muslim fathers.</h5>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Catholic Resistance Reading List: Countering the Synodal Scam.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to an Ongoing READ and LEAD Resistance/Counter-Synodal Bookshelf where Truth shatters the Myth and Grift of Synodality, Interfaith Dialogue, EcoTheology and much more.]]></description><link>https://lizyore.substack.com/p/the-catholic-resistance-reading-list</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lizyore.substack.com/p/the-catholic-resistance-reading-list</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Yore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:06:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YbW-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd74aaf81-a357-4f78-a352-5c0ac2e75986_1280x853.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YbW-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd74aaf81-a357-4f78-a352-5c0ac2e75986_1280x853.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YbW-!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd74aaf81-a357-4f78-a352-5c0ac2e75986_1280x853.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YbW-!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_848, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, 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/__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd74aaf81-a357-4f78-a352-5c0ac2e75986_1280x853.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4 style="text-align: center;">The Scandal and Futility of the Interfaith Dialogue</h4><p><em><strong><a href="https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/e-book-release-bridge-building-to-nowhere/">Bridge-Building to Nowhere: The Catholic Church&#8217;s Case Study in Interfaith Delusion</a></strong>, by Stephen Coughlin. Center for Security Policy-Download for Free PDF or <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bridge-Building-Nowhere-Catholic-Interfaith-Civilization-ebook/dp/B015NO4OYU/ref=sr_1_1?crid=PHXZIV3LPTIG&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.V2xlxfQ2Sz4sZX090KBuRQ.r97Zrwh62HjlUloar5UIAKOMEWxK8Wx9A3w7cTh0HbA&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=bridge+building+to+nowhere+by+stephen+coughlin&amp;qid=1784656664&amp;sprefix=bridge+building+to+nowhere+by+stephen+coughlin%2Caps%2C136&amp;sr=8-1">purchase on Amazon</a>.</em></p><p><strong><a href="https://rairfoundation.com/red-pill-brief-stephen-coughlins-explosive-2015-warning/">&#8216;The Red Pill Brief&#8217;: Stephen Coughlin&#8217;s Explosive 2015 Warning on Islam, Civilizational Jihad, and the Marxist-Islamic Alliance Governments Want Buried</a></strong></p><h3 style="text-align: center;">Synodality </h3><p><em><strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Trojan-Horse-Catholic-Church-Synodality/dp/B0FWR6Y6Q4/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2VS66I8NHUOVN&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-QTPYxfadyiF5ickU3UpzxQj1QKYrBonv4vF9EFRkdLGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.kkaVKPOhyDSmq0442vx69q0hJaDlXdYVDhMOxozDja4&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=the+trojan+horse+in+the+catholic+church+by+father+enoch&amp;nsdOptOutParam=true&amp;qid=1784660731&amp;sprefix=the+trojan+horse+in+the+catholic+church+by+father+enoch%2Caps%2C130&amp;sr=8-1">The Trojan Horse in the Catholic Church, Synod on Synodality: The Attempt to invert the Bride of Christ&#8217;s hierarchy and moral order. </a></strong>by Father Enoch</em></p><p><em><strong><a href="https://ewtn.co.uk/article-new-book-warns-of-revolutionary-threat-posed-by-synod-on-synodality/">The Synodal Process is a Pandora&#8217;s Box</a> </strong></em>by <span>Jos&#233; Antonio Ureta and Julio Loredo de Izcue </span></p><p><em><strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Revivalism-Synodal-church-William/dp/B0GPPNRCVX"><span>Catholic Revivalism or a Synodal Church</span></a><span> </span></strong></em><span>by Prof. William Thomas</span></p><p><em><strong><a href="https://angeluspress.org/products/synodality-an-attack-on-papal-authority"><span>Synodality an Attack on Papal Authority</span></a><span> by  </span></strong></em><strong><span>Courrier de Rome</span></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/exclusive-archbishop-viganos-reaction-to-the-synod-whore-of-babylon/"><span>Archbishop Vigano on the Synod on Synodality</span></a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.exsurgedomine.org/en/blog/synodality-and-watchful-waiting/"><span>Archbishop Vigano on the Synod on Synodality</span></a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.exsurgedomine.org/en/blog/archbishop-carlo-maria-vigano-to-leo-xiv/"><span>Archbishop Vigano on Synodality</span></a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDb6aqyRdUs"><span>Frank Wright on the Synodal Church</span></a></strong></p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span>Daily Truth of Catholicism News</span></strong></h4><ul><li><p><a href="https://canon212.com/">Canon212.com</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/">LifeSiteNews.com</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.complicitclergy.com/">ComplicitClergy.com</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://gloria.tv">Gloria TV</a></p><p></p><p>Send me your recommendations so we can build a Resistance Movement based on Truth, Courage and Faith.</p></li></ul><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lampedusa Migrant Production: The Gospel According to PR Stunts]]></title><description><![CDATA[Again, Lampedusa serves a Vatican backdrop for a media driven message where visuals overshadowed the realities of illegal migration reality.]]></description><link>https://lizyore.substack.com/p/lampedusa-migrant-production-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lizyore.substack.com/p/lampedusa-migrant-production-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Yore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:14:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OrL1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F088eda9b-7efd-41cb-ae98-161c4de839a5_640x414.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OrL1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F088eda9b-7efd-41cb-ae98-161c4de839a5_640x414.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OrL1!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F088eda9b-7efd-41cb-ae98-161c4de839a5_640x414.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OrL1!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_848, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F088eda9b-7efd-41cb-ae98-161c4de839a5_640x414.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OrL1!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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where gestures speak louder than words. But for gestures to be human, they need a heart.&#8221;  </em></p><p>Lampedusa, the Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea is Europe&#8217;s primary entry point for illegal migrants crossing from North Africa.  It tees up poignantly as the perfect stage for the papal globalist: a remote island transformed into a cinematic backdrop for sentimentalist globalism, where carefully choreographed optics substitute for hard questions and emotion is elevated above reality. </p><p>Like his predecessor Francis, Leo brought his own migration promotional tour to Lampedusa-a remote place overwhelmed with massive boat arrivals of illegal immigrants from Africa creating a debilitating humanitarian crises for the small island. </p><p>Does Leo&#8217;s <em>heartfelt gesture </em>of generosity apply to the Holy See where illegal immigration laws are the toughest <a href="https://www.ewtnnews.com/vatican/vatican-cracks-down-on-illegal-entry-into-its-territory">in Europe with hefty civil and criminal penalties</a>? Apparently, not. The Vatican maintains its 37 foot stone wall erected to keep out invading Muslims over 1100 years ago. The Holy See, itself, stands as the most impenetrable sovereign fortress safe from invaders, while the rest of the world struggles with the catastrophic fallout of mass illegal migration.</p><p>In a striking display of tacky symbolism, Robert Prevost, the first American born pope cynically chose the momentous 250th Anniversary of America&#8217;s founding not to celebrate the nation&#8217;s extraordinary experiment in laws and liberty, but to rebuke it over illegal immigration. On a day commemorating 250 years of blood, sweat, sacrifice, and perseverance to build and preserve this <em>&#8220;sweet land of liberty&#8221;</em> under the rule of law, Robert Prevost chose instead to denounce America&#8217;s enforcement of its borders, branding resistance to illegal immigration a <em>&#8220;grave sin.&#8221;</em> For many, the contrast could not have been more jarring: a celebration of a sovereign nation founded on laws overshadowed by a papal condemnation of its right to uphold them.  </p><p>Prevost&#8217;s stunt was a crass political cheap shot aimed at his fellow countrymen. On the very day Americans were joyfully and proudly singing the timeless words <em>of America the Beautiful&#8212;&#8220;Confirm thy soul in self control, thy liberty in law&#8221; </em>the Chicago born pontiff chose instead to celebrate those who violated immigration laws. As the nation honored the indispensable bond between liberty and the rule of law, Leo  directed his praise toward those who had entered the country illegally casting lawbreakers as the moral protagonists of the day. </p><p>Lampedusa wasn&#8217;t a humanitarian mission&#8212;it was a Vatican film set, which crashed and burned with its sanctimonious pretense. The meticulously staged pageant of compassion was nothing more than political theatre, complete with manufactured pathos, and a director&#8217;s obsession with getting just the right shot, for which Leo followed his cues. Like all pr stunts, the Vatican brought a producer, set designer, videographer, handler, photographer, and the requisite pregnant immigrant mother with two children in tow-as the Vatican shamelessly exploited an African family. </p><p>The Vatican&#8217;s failed Cecil B. DeMille biopic ended as a cinematic flop at Lampedusa. Wide-angle footage stripped away the carefully crafted illusion, revealing a frenetic PR crew scrambling to stage a photo-op masquerading as spontaneous compassion&#8212;a scripted spectacle where media optics eclipsed reality. SEE VIDEO BELOW:</p><p></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;085297ef-6620-430e-954a-9ec88b9ef148&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p>Watch how the frenetic Vatican media team stages the political event at the shoreline of the demarcation point for illegals arriving by boat. Lights, camera, action, zoom in on the obligatory brief, but appearance by the sympathetic immigrant pregnant mother, who is then shooed away by the Vatican suits. Note as the Vatican videographers and photographers madly dash around to capture the perfect photo of Leo dramatically standing at the portal gate.  Cue: Leo walking on the rocks to get the perfect photo, the man in white, dramatically gazes out to the Mediterranean. Then, without warning Mother Nature seized the director&#8217;s chair. A sudden gust ripped the white zucchetto from his head and sent it tumbling into the rocks.  A divine intervention? Or perhaps, heaven&#8217;s way of reminding the papal production team that not every scene can be scripted as his hat was unceremoniously removed from the production.</p><p>This photo op was a calculated misdirection designed to divert attention from the staggering scale of illegal immigration and the web of deception used by migrants to illegally gain entry into the developed world. No one is falling for the Vatican&#8217;s globalist agitprop.</p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Wreckage and Deception of Prevost&#8217;s Precious Illegal Immigration: Europe&#8217;s Preventable Crimes </strong></h4><p>Leo&#8217;s <em>synodal dialogue </em>of appeasement conveniently<em> </em>ignores the human toll of illegal immigration convulsing Europe. The vicar does not count the needless injured and tragic deaths directly related to illegal immigration. Rather, he devotes far greater public attention to the plight of migrants than to the victims of crimes committed by those who enter countries illegally. Papal silence is deafening over soaring migrant crime, yet he bellows against mass deportation.  Leo rants over the harsh treatment of immigrants in the US, calling the actions <em>&#8220;inhumane&#8221;</em> and <em>&#8220;extremely disrespectful&#8221; </em>yet utters not a word over migrant crime and soaring fraud. </p><p><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/travels/2026/documents/spagna-6-12giugno2026.html">In June 2026,</a> Leo visited Spain, including the migrant demarcation center in the <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/speeches/2026/giugno/documents/20260611-spagna-accoglienza-migranti.html">Canary Islands</a> spending endless papal capital honoring illegal immigration: </p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;Dear migrants, before saying anything else to you, <strong>I want to bow before your dignity. </strong>You are not just numbers or files. You are people who have left behind families and homes. You have dreams that no one has the right to despise. However, I also want to tell you that your lives must be protected.&#8221; ~Leo XVI</em></p></div><p><em>Bow before your dignity?  </em>This is not moral clarity. It is emotionalism elevated into policy: a theatrical display of deference and blindness that risks transforming every arrival into an automatic victim and every question about identity, credibility, legality, or public safety into an act of cruelty. </p><p>With those words, Leo turns the arrival of boatloads of illegal migrants into an emotional spectacle&#8212;placing the full moral weight of compassion on those arriving while too often leavening unanswered the deception, contradictory identities, disputed ages, and unverifiable stories. Scrutiny( <em>files and numbers) </em>is condemned as if it is inhuman or unreasonable. </p><p>The following crime statistics capture a public safety crisis of staggering proportions, documenting serious offenses committed by law-breaking migrants against innocent native-born citizens. The scale and depravity of these crimes demand urgent public attention and a robust response from political and moral leaders. </p><p>The cruel reality of illegal immigration exposes Leo&#8217;s faux righteousness and makes a mockery of his haughty gaslighting.</p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Illegal Deception by Claiming </strong><em><strong>Child Status</strong></em><strong> </strong></h4><p>Claiming &#8220;child status&#8221; in Europe, as an illegal immigrant provides a wide range of benefits. Child status delivers guardian support, child-appropriate (non detention) reception procedural advantages in asylum, stronger barriers to removal, comprehensive taxpayer funded care, and better long-term integration prospects&#8212;all of which adults do not receive. There is also significantly greater difficulty in deportation; and, in many cases, pathways to family reunification or residence permits unavailable to adults. </p><p><strong>Reality: </strong>Many immigrants disappear from centers once age verification begins, avoiding confirmation of their actual age. These advantages are substantial, which is why &#8220;age fraud&#8221; is endemic to illegal migration. The European data demonstrates that arriving illegals are exploiting the system.</p><h2 style="text-align: center;">Leo <em>bows</em> before liars, deceivers and scammers</h2><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>CANARY ISLANDS-VISITED BY LEO ON 6-11-26</strong></p><p><a href="https://rmx.news/article/canary-islands-92-of-illegal-arrivals-are-men-and-half-of-unaccompanied-minors-are-adults-european-parliament-fact-finding-mission-finds/">A European Parliament fact-finding mission to </a><strong><a href="https://rmx.news/article/canary-islands-92-of-illegal-arrivals-are-men-and-half-of-unaccompanied-minors-are-adults-european-parliament-fact-finding-mission-finds/">Spain&#8217;s Canary Islands</a> (where Leo visited on June 11-12, 2026)</strong> found that roughly <strong>50% of unaccompanied minors </strong>there were <em><strong>actually adults,</strong></em> highlighting willful deception among a high level of illegal arrivals.</p><p><strong>Spanish authorities in Madrid</strong> (where Leo visited touting immigration) just released  evidence of  mass deception by arriving illegal immigrants, who claim to be minors. 7<strong>0 percent turn out to be adults over 18. </strong>Spanish outlet <a href="https://www.eldebate.com/sociedad/20260706/gran-farsa-menores-inmigrantes-fiscalia-madrid-prueba-70-son-mayores-18-anos_436333.html">El Debate</a>, <strong>highlighted a growing &#8220;farce&#8221; in the handling of unaccompanied minor claims across the country.  </strong>These are the same illegal immigrants arriving in Spain that Leo <em>&#8220;bows to their human dignity.&#8221; </em></p><p>The Madrid Fiscal&#237;a&#8217;s 2024 data adds Spain to the growing list of European jurisdictions where official statistics confirm that the <em>&#8220;unaccompanied minor&#8221; </em>category is being heavily exploited. With over 11,000 cases handled in Madrid alone since 2018 and frauds tripling in a single year, the scale suggests the problem is not anecdotal but structural.</p><p>Remix News <a href="https://rmx.news/article/moroccan-minor-accused-of-raping-14-year-old-girl-in-madrid-turns-out-to-be-23-year-old-adult-with-14-previous-convictions/">has also documented specific incidents</a> in Spain itself that align with this pattern. In one Madrid case reported in October 2025, a Moroccan man accused of raping a 14-year-old girl claimed to be 17; age verification determined he was likely 23, with 14 prior convictions, leading to his case being transferred to adult court.</p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/spain-70-tested-unaccompanied-minor-immigrants-are-actually-adults">Jawdropping fraud seen across Europe</a></h2><p><strong>France has documented similar age verification abuses</strong>. In the Marne department, bone analyses of 240 individuals claiming to be unaccompanied minors found that <strong>80 percent</strong> (192 people) were actually adults.</p><p>French MP Charles de Courson highlighted the financial burden in a parliamentary speech, &#8220;<strong><a href="https://rmx.news/france/bone-tests-show-80-of-migrant-minors-are-actually-adults-and-theyre-costing-taxpayers-a-fortune-warns-french-mp/">Eighty percent of unaccompanied migrants </a></strong><a href="https://rmx.news/france/bone-tests-show-80-of-migrant-minors-are-actually-adults-and-theyre-costing-taxpayers-a-fortune-warns-french-mp/">in France&#8217;s northeast Marne department who declared themselves thus are not minors</a>, with the cost of caring for these <strong>160 false minors costing &#8364;5,000 per month, which equals for &#8364;60,000 per year for each of the migrants.</strong></p><p><strong>Belgium</strong> reported comparable results. A study of data from Justice Minister Koen Geens showed that of 4,563 migrants declaring themselves minors, authorities doubted 2,546 claims. Age tests on a sample revealed that <strong><a href="https://rmx.news/article/73-of-underaged-asylum-seekers-in-belgium-are-actually-adults-study/">73.7 percent were over 18</a>. </strong>Flemish MP Tom Van Grieken stated bluntly: &#8220;Asylum seekers guilty of age fraud should be denied the right to asylum.&#8221;</p><p><strong>Sweden </strong>recorded an even higher rate: <strong>Authorities found 84% of tested &#8220;child migrants&#8221; were </strong><em><strong>actually 18 or older</strong></em><strong>.</strong> </p><p><strong>In Germany,</strong> forensic examinations in M&#252;nster showed<strong> around 40% of examined &#8220;unaccompanied minor refugees&#8221; </strong>were demonstrably adults, with many sharing <em>suspicious January 1 birth dates </em>&#8212; a common indicator of fabricated identities.</p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Migrants and Soaring Crime</strong></h4><p><strong><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/record-high-53-gang-rape-suspects-were-foreigners-2025-germany">Migrant Gang Rape Explosion-</a></strong>Immigrants involved in German gang rapes hit a record high in <strong>2025, reaching 53 percent.</strong> A total of 751 victims were gang-raped in the country. The data comes from a response by the German federal government to a parliamentary request by the Alternative for Germany (AfD).</p><p>Previous studies have shown that when the first names of gang rape suspects are analyzed, a total of <a href="https://x.com/RMXnews/status/1830926105517208041">75 percent of gang rapes are committed by individuals with a foreign first name</a>.</p><p>The high number of foreigners involved in gang rape cases comes at a time when more and more foreigners have been naturalized as German citizens. <a href="https://rmx.news/article/germany-criminal-suspects-with-dual-citizenship-will-now-be-recorded-in-crime-statistics-for-the-first-time-ever-in-one-state/">Millions of migrants also have dual citizenship</a> and whenever they rape, murder or steal, their crimes are recorded as &#8220;German&#8221; in the federal crime statistics.</p><p>Among the victims, 80 percent were German citizens.</p><p><strong><span>Sweden-</span></strong><span>Formerly known for having one of the lowest crime rates in the world, Sweden&#8217;s perilous immigration policies have pushed the crime rate to 48.0 per 100,000 people, which is nearly as high as that in Britain (48.03); with the death rate from gun crimes now the second highest in Europe, and the rate of reported sexual violence (192.08 per 100,000 inhabitants) second only to that in the UK. <br><br></span><strong><span>Norway&#8217;s </span></strong><span>foreign population is estimated at 1,152,000 people (20.8% of their population), the majority of these immigrants are from Europe, and are therefore compatible with the Norwegians. However, around 400,000 immigrants are from the Middle East and Africa, which are not. </span></p><p><span>Immigrants from Pakistan, India and Somalia </span><strong><span>comprise 30% of all annual imprisonments in Norway, five times their representation in Norwegian society</span></strong><span>. They also pose a threat to the safety and security, and particularly of their women and children. Non-European immigrants make up 47% of all cases of perpetrators that have murdered their partner.<br></span></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong><a href="https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/12/01/europe_shows_a_clear_link_between_immigration_and_crime_-_like_the_one_the_us_seriously_downplays_867625.html">Clear Link Between Immigration and Crime in Europe</a></strong></h3><p><a href="https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/12/01/europe_shows_a_clear_link_between_immigration_and_crime_-_like_the_one_the_us_seriously_downplays_867625.html">Real Clear Investigations</a> probed the link between crime and immigration into Europe. The following findings are noteworthy:</p><p><em><span>&#8220;Over the 10 years from 2012 to 2021, about </span><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/MIGR_IMM1CTZ/default/table?lang=en">41 million people</a><span> immigrated to the European Union, and of those about </span><a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/454775/number-of-illegal-entries-between-bcps-to-the-eu/">3.8 million</a><span>, over 9%, are estimated to have done so illegally. Sweden's largely legal influx of newcomers </span><a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/523293/immigration-to-sweden/">averaged nearly 130,000 a year from 2012 to 2019</a><span>, before the country began curtailing immigration in 2020.</span></em></p><p><em><span>Real Clear Investigations collected </span><a href="https://dataunodc.un.org/dp-intentional-homicide-victims">homicide data</a><span> for the European Union from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime for 11 years, from 2010 to 2020, and compared it to rising percentages of </span><a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32007R0862">each country&#8217;s foreign-born population</a><span>. Even after accounting for variations among countries, the data show that </span><a href="https://crimeresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Regression-EU-noncitizens-and-crime-1400x1949.jpg">each one percentage point increase in immigrant population is associated with a 3.6 percent increase in the homicide rate</a><span>.</span></em></p><p><em><span>Homicides across the EU rose by about 8% between 2019 and 2020, with Germany and Hungary experiencing 25% increases. Sweden&#8217;s rose by 11%. </span></em></p><blockquote><p><em>In 2020, Swedish sociology professor G&#246;ran Adamson published a crime study showing an unmistakable link to immigration. It concluded that from 2002 to 2017, 58% of criminal suspects in Sweden were immigrants. That figure rose for murder, attempted murder, and manslaughter, where immigrants were identified as suspects in 73% of the cases, and robberies, in which immigrants were suspects in 70% of the cases.</em></p><p><em>Adamson told RCI that while members of some immigrant groups, such as Vietnamese, were less prone to commit crimes compared with native Swedes, others such as those from the Middle East and Africa &#8211; regions that account for most of the immigration to Sweden &#8211; were much more likely to do so. Overall, <strong>Adamson&#8217;s study concluded that Sweden&#8217;s murder rate had quadrupled due to immigration. </strong>Consequently, he said, he found RCI&#8217;s statistical analysis to be &#8220;believable.&#8221;</em></p><p><em>Researchers in Denmark reached similar conclusions about immigration and crime. <strong>An index shows that crime in 2020 was 51% higher among male immigrants and 149% higher among male offspring with a non-Western background than among the entire male population.&#8221;</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>As of January 2025, <a href="https://deepnewz.com/sweden/lund-university-study-63-rape-convicts-sweden-2000-2020-immigrant-background-aa6dfd6c">nearly 2/3 of convicted rapists in Sweden</a> are migrants or second generation immigrants, according to researchers at Lund University. </p><p>These were preventable and avoidable crimes. Had immigration laws been enforced and proper vetting conducted before entry, the perpetrators would not have been admitted&#8212;and these particular crimes would never have taken place in the country. Innocent crime victims are unnecessarily and tragically paying the high price for laxed enforcement and globalist policies of unfettered mass migration.</p><p>The result is a one-sided morality play in which the migrant is granted unquestioned dignity, while the victims of crime, the citizens expected to absorb the consequences and the integrity of a manipulated and exploited asylum system are demeaned as <em>&#8220;despisers.&#8221; </em></p><p>Clearly,  the Vatican learned nothing from the global mockery that followed Leo&#8217;s spectacle of blessing a block of ice from Greenland in a theatrical promotion of his green theology. Once again, the Vatican appears to have underestimated the intelligence of its worldwide audience&#8212;and the audience saw straight through the staging, the symbolism, and the woke ideological messaging. </p><p>When ecclesial theater becomes this transparent, the result is not reverence but ridicule.  The Vatican keeps mistaking political theater for prophetic witness&#8212;and then seem genuinely surprised when the world laughs&#8212;and the victims weep.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dialogue Leads to Crackdown: Beijing's Useful Idiots ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Vatican's secret China deal empowered the CCP's War on Religious Freedom. The Vatican placated the CCP: Eight Years of Appeasement brings Eight Years of Persecution.]]></description><link>https://lizyore.substack.com/p/dialogue-leads-to-crackdown-beijings</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lizyore.substack.com/p/dialogue-leads-to-crackdown-beijings</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Yore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:55:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EiO1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7af20e4-5dd1-469f-b3b8-4d42716031c6_1248x832.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3 style="text-align: center;">The Devil&#8217;s Concordat: The Vatican&#8217;s China Deal Implodes</h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em><strong>&#8220;Nobody has any illusion about the Chinese Communists Party&#8217;s determination to eliminate all religion.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p>~<em>Bishop James E. Walsh, Maryknoll Missionary to China, 1948, imprisoned for 12 years by the CCP.</em></p><p></p></div><p>The Patriotic <em>Chinese Catholic Association </em>was established in 1957 by the authority of  Mao Zedong, and under the control of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the CCP with the goal to bring Catholicism into alignment with Communist ideology. Yet, 3 million Chinese retreated to the Underground Catholic Church and remained faithful to the tenets of the Catholic faith and the Vatican. They refused to follow the CCP&#8217;s fake patriotic church, knowing that the Communist government sought to undermine the Catholic faith, by imposing atheistic communist principles upon the Catholic faithful and clergy.   For decades,  the Underground Catholic Church resisted the CCP and heeded Pope Pius XII&#8217;s warning about the dangerous threat of the CCP Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association Church:</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em><strong>&#8220;For under the appearance of patriotism, which in reality, is just a fraud, this patriotic association aims primarily at making Catholics gradually embrace the tenets of atheistic materialism, by which God Himself is denied and religious principles are rejected.&#8221;  &#8220;{i}n reality it aims at setting aside and neglecting the rights of the Church and effecting its complete subjection to civil authorities.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p style="text-align: right;"><em>~Pius XII, Ad Apostolorum Principis, 1958.</em></p></div><h4 style="text-align: center;">Pope Benedict Ceased Negotiations with the Chinese</h4><p>Significantly, <a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/07VATICAN193_a.html">Wikileaks released a U.S. diplomatic cable</a> dated December 21, 2007,  which disclosed that  <a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/07VATICAN193_a.html">Pope Benedict saw no agreement with the Chinese Government on Bishop ordinations</a>  based on China&#8217;s incessant duplicity, deception and insistence on the very issue which the Leo Vatican now supports, the Patriotic Catholic Church. In the released U.S. cable titled, <strong><a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/07VATICAN193_a.html">CHINA - HOLY SEE: NO AGREEMENT ON CATHOLIC BISHOP ORDINATIONS,</a> </strong>the U.S. Embassy describes the breakdown:  </p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><strong><span>On December 17, 2007, the US Embassy was informed that: </span></strong><em><strong><span><br>that the Holy See and the Government of China (GoC) had not <br>reached an agreement or even an informal understanding on the <br>issue of episcopal ordinations during the recently held Holy See <br>- GoC talks in Beijing.  Rota-Graziosi, who accompanied Deputy <br>Foreign Minister equivalent Monsignor Pietro Parolin to the <br>talks at the (GoC) Government of China Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that GoC had not changed its long-standing demand that the Holy See agree to refrain from <br>exercising dominion over episcopal ordinations. <br> <br>According to the Vatican Representative,  Msgr. Rota-Graziosi,  "I see no hope for a breakthrough on the issue of  episcopal ordinations or on the normalization of relations between the GoC (Government of China)  and the Holy See in the near or mid-term", adding that &#8220;any reports indicating otherwise are probably disinformation from the GoC designed to create goodwill for the regime in the lead-up to the 2008 Summer Olympics and to encourage the underground church to come out into the open where it can be better controlled by the Catholic Patriotic Association.&#8221;</span></strong></em></p></div><p>Benedict terminated talks with the CCP. The evidence is unmistakable and irrefutable. As the diplomatic cable reveals, Pope Benedict recognized that the Chinese were operating in bad faith throughout the negotiations and terminated them, rather than risk a fraudulent and perilous agreement.</p><p>Twenty years later, Benedict appears prophetic. The subsequent agreement pursued by Francis and continued under Leo, laid bare the CCP&#8217;s objective: not peaceful coexistence with Catholicism, but its subordination to the Communist Party through coercion, intimidation, and relentless control. Shockingly, the Vatican continues this charade of accommodation with the CCP while Catholics are brutally persecuted by the Chinese government.</p><h4 style="text-align: center;">McCarrick was the Mastermind of this Monstrosity </h4><p>Within 60 days of Francis&#8217; election, the moribund China/Vatican talks were reignited when Francis tasked the serial sexual predator Ted McCarrick, <a href="https://online.wsj.com/media/Viganos-letter.pdf">who Francis resurrected from banishment</a> to travel to China, to restart talks with the CCP about appointment Bishops in Communist China. <a href="https://www.ewtnnews.com/vatican/archbishop-mccarricks-unofficial-role-in-vatican-china-relations">McCarrick traveled to China at least 3 times </a>and reported back to Francis and Parolin the status of  his negotiations with the CCP. </p><p><a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2018-09/china-holy-see-agreement-appointment-bishops.html">On September 22, 2018, the Provisional Agreement regarding the Appointment of Bishops,</a> the full text of which has never been made public, ended a decades-long standoff over who had the authority to appoint bishops in China. The secret Vatican/CCP pact was brokered in darkness.  8 years later, the fruits of that secrecy are on full public display: broken promises, intensified persecution, and a Church left to bear the cost. The consequences of this pact with the devil are impossible to conceal.</p><p>When Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen learned of the impending Vatican deal,  he vehemently warned the Vatican against executing any pact with the CCP.  <a href="https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15738/china-catholic-church">Zen predicted </a>that this agreement would be <em><strong>&#8220;a total sellout to the faithful,&#8221;</strong></em><strong> </strong>a <em>&#8220;<strong>betrayal,&#8221; </strong></em>a <em><strong>&#8220;surrender,&#8221; </strong></em>and  <em><strong>&#8220;a Suicide Pact,&#8221;</strong></em><strong> </strong>which would <em><strong>&#8220;deliver the Church into the hands of the enemy,&#8221;</strong> </em>and a <em><strong>&#8220;perverse deception,&#8221;</strong></em><strong> </strong>to the faithful. </p><p>As Zen predicted, from the moment the red ink was dry, the CCP violated the secret terms of the deal and also ramped up persecution against the laity and clerics of the Underground Catholic Church who refused to join Patriotic Catholic Church. </p><p>Under the covert agreement, Francis, and now Leo, encouraged Chinese Catholics to leave the underground church and join the CCP-created Chinese Catholic Patriotic Church. Many priests, bishops, and laity of the Underground Church refused to do so because, like the beloved Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen, and the great persecuted Cardinal Kung,  they knew the consequences of this monstrous deal for the Catholic Church in China and to their souls.</p><p>Under the original 2018 pact, it appeared that the Chinese government would propose names for bishops and the Vatican could exercise veto power over those appointments. In reality, the Vatican never exercised its veto authority. When the Chinese unilaterally appointed bishops, without Vatican approval,  the Vatican remained silent and quietly rubber stamped the bishops, some of  whom were members of the CCP. When the Chinese government started arresting and harrassing Underground Church bishops, priests, and laity, the Vatican remained silent and did not publicly protest, nor did it withdraw its agreement. </p><h4>Despite repeated violations, the Vatican renewed the agreement 3 times.</h4><p>In the face of blatant violations by the CCP and an extraordinary uptick of religious persecution,  the Vatican renewed the agreement in <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2020-10/holy-see-china-provisional-agreement-renew-appointment-bishops.html">2020</a> and in <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2022-10/holy-see-china-provisional-agreement-on-nomination-of-bishops.html">2022</a>. Despite massive widespread persecution against the underground churches, the Vatican refused to protest, modify or repeal the agreement.  Incredibly, <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2024-10/holy-see-china-provisional-agreement-appointment-bishops-extend.html">in 2024,</a> the Vatican rewarded the CCP for a third time with an unprecedented <em><a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2024-10/holy-see-china-provisional-agreement-appointment-bishops-extend.html">4 year renewal</a></em><a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2024-10/holy-see-china-provisional-agreement-appointment-bishops-extend.html"> to 2028.</a> </p><p>Eight years into the secret Vatican/CCP pact, the Catholic Church in China lies in tatters: religious persecution is rampant, human rights abuses intensified and the CCP is tightening the noose around Catholics.  The record grows longer every year. Global human rights organizations continue to document an intensifying campaign of persecution against Chinese Catholics while repeatedly urging the Vatican to abandon its pact with the CCP. Yet the Vatican remains silent and unmoved. To its critic, that silence is no longer mere diplomacy&#8212;it is acquiescence, inviting charges of complicity through willful inaction. </p><h4><strong>Human Rights Watch Report 2024 : <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/09/30/vaticans-disgraceful-china-deal-ought-end">The Vatican&#8217;s Disgraceful China Deal Ought to End:</a></strong></h4><p>Findings:</p><p>&#8220;In 2024, by renewing a secretive agreement with Beijing, the Vatican is dangerously close to being complicit in the Chinese government&#8217;s deepening rights abuses.&#8221; </p><p><span>Human Rights Watch and many NGOs, including from within the Roman Catholic Church, have </span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/10/05/despite-china-vatican-agreement-many-chinese-worry-about-religious-freedom">repeatedly</a><span> </span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/03/16/pope-francis-should-speak-out-against-beijings-abuses">criticized</a><span> those arrangements. Even when the agreement was first signed, it was </span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2018/country-chapters/china-and-tibet">clear</a><span> that China under President Xi Jinping was highly repressive, toward religious freedom.  </span></p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;By renewing a secretive deal with Beijing, t<strong>he Vatican is effectively endorsing the Chinese government&#8217;s perversion of religions and is dangerously close to being complicit in the country&#8217;s deepening rights abuses.</strong> But it still has time to makea U-turn: Make its China agreement public, ensure that it respects freedom of religion, and push Beijing to drop charges and investigations against Cardinal Zen and to free bishops Zhang Weizhu and Cui Tai. If its Catholic brothers and sisters in China have managed to persist in standing for justice and human rights despite decades of persecution, the Vatican can surely find the moral courage to defend them.&#8221; ~Human Rights Watch</em></p></div><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Underground Bishops are Disappeared &amp; Persecuted</strong></h4><p>Two persecuted and underground bishops, <a href="https://www.asianews.it/news-en/A-new-bishop-replaces-underground-Bishop-Cui-in-Hebei-63840.html">Augustine Cui Tai</a> and <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=65099">Thaddeus Ma Daqin</a>, have been detained, held under house arrest, and restricted in their ministerial duties by government-appointed bishops. <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2024-10/holy-see-china-provisional-agreement-appointment-bishops-extend.html">James Su Zhimin, 94,(who has not been seen since 2003) and Xin Wenzhi, 63, remains forcibly disappeared, and Vincent Guo Xijin and Peter Shao Zhumin </a>remain under house arrest. Priests, who refuse to join the Patriotic Church are disappeared, arrested, tortured, and if released from detention, face ongoing harassment, with loss of bank accounts, passports, sim cards, and have no means of survival. </p><h4>U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom-2024 Report</h4><p><a href="https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/2024%20China%20Factsheet%20Sinicization.pdf">A 2024 Report </a>by the <em>U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom</em> also found similar widespread religious persecution of Catholics by the CCP: </p><p><a href="https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/2024%20China%20Factsheet%20Sinicization.pdf">The analysis</a> by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) described that the CCP&#8217;s &#8220;sinicization of religion&#8221; policy consistently violates the internationally protected right to freedom of religion. The term sinicization means to conform religion to  the Chinese culture, but the policy essentially undermines faiths to <em>&#8220;the CCP&#8217;s political agenda and Marxist vision for religion,&#8221; </em>according to the report. </p><p>For example, sinicization policy mandates the following violations:</p><p>~Chinese officials have ordered the removal of crosses from churches and have replaced images of Christ and the Virgin Mary with images of President Xi Jinping, according to the report.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Qdb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff1ab5c84-dfa0-4e6c-9c6c-d57a6749bf61_640x360.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9Qdb!, 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&#8220;patriotic religious associations&#8221; and their local branches. </p><p>~~This policy includes instructing churches to remove images of the Ten Commandments and replace them with sayings of Chairman Mao and Xi. Removing Crucifixes from Churches and replacing them with Chairman Xi Xinping&#8217;s photo.</p><p>~For Catholic churches, this means enrolling in the Bishops&#8217; Conference of the Catholic Church in China, which is officially under the control of China&#8217;s State Administration for Religious Affairs and the CCP&#8217;s United Front Work Department.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g7jW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9e99813-dbc5-4504-8870-18c58260a4f1_496x331.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g7jW!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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Chinese law, a policy that has resulted in mass arrests and imprisonment, according to the report. </p><p>~Chinese officials have enforced the anti-cult provisions against underground Catholics who do not recognize the authority of the government-backed clergy and the distortion of the faith.</p><p><strong>USCIRF found that the CCP considers Underground Catholics to be a threat because they do not recognize the government&#8217;s purported authority </strong><em><strong>&#8220;to dictate religious doctrine and regulate religious affairs.&#8221; </strong></em></p><p><strong>Incredibly,  the Vatican remains silent--choosing to side with the communists over faithful Catholics while this explosion of persecution occurs throughout the implementation of the Vatican/China agreement.</strong></p><p>The Vatican, by its submission to the CCP,  abandoned all Chinese Catholics to the brutal whims and repressive domination of the CCP, thus elevating the Communist agenda as an ideological requirement of Chinese Catholics. Even more problematic, Rome now finds among its episcopacy, members of the CCP, who are required to promote atheistic Communist ideology.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4><a href="https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/2024%20China%20Factsheet%20Sinicization.pdf">The USCIRF</a> report found that the <strong>&#8220;CCP</strong><em><strong> government has unilaterally installed CCP-aligned bishops without the Vatican&#8217;s consultation and approval&#8221;</strong></em><strong> in violation of the 2018 agreement.</strong></h4></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7i8P!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc350b372-b0d5-43cb-9503-9e2609dd20c6_1150x682.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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USCIRF,  stated that the CCP is <em>&#8220;trying to sever the Catholic Church in China from the pope.&#8221; </em></p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Catholic bishops are special targets because of their essential role within the hierarchical Church in ensuring communion with the successor of St. Peter. Those who resist [government intrusion] are placed in indefinite detention without due process, banished from their episcopal sees, placed under indefinite security police investigation, disappeared, and/or prevented from exercising their episcopal ministries.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>Shea further noted that the Vatican-China agreement <em>&#8220;makes no accommodation for bishops who resist joining the association for reasons of conscience, nor does it address religious persecution&#8221; <strong>and that religious persecution under Xi is &#8220;the most repressive for Chinese Catholics since the Mao era.&#8221;</strong></em></p><h4><strong><a href="https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2025/country-chapters/china">2025 Human Rights Watch Report</a> on the dire state of Chinese Catholics</strong></h4><p><strong><a href="https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2025/country-chapters/china">The 2025 Human Rights Watch Repor</a>t submitted an update</strong> on the dire treatment of Catholics in China by the CCP. The Report urged Leo to urgently review the pact, and speak out against the CCP persecution of Chinese Catholics. </p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The new Pope, Leo XIV, should direct an urgent review of the <a href="https://www.hrw.org/europe/central-asia/holy-see">Vatican</a>&#8217;s 2018 agreement with the <a href="https://www.hrw.org/asia/china-and-tibet">Chinese</a> government that allows Beijing to appoint bishops for government-approved houses of worship. He should also press the government to end the persecution of underground churches, clergy, and worshipers.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><h4><strong>Patriotic Church demands Clerical Loyalty Oath to the CCP</strong></h4><p>The persecution and intimidation also continues for the priests who join the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association. These priests are required to take an oath that includes recognizing the authority of the Chinese government over the Catholic Church and rejecting the authority of the Pope. This oath is part of the state-controlled structure that governs the Patriotic Church in China.  </p><blockquote><p><em>The recent intensification includes subjecting clergy to intense political or ideological training. Greater restrictions have also been imposed on religious activities on official church premises, including registration requirements for church services and the prohibition of religious education for children at home and of charitable activities tied to religion.</em></p></blockquote><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Imprisoned Underground Bishops</strong></h4><p>Pope Leo relishes climbing rocks at Lampedusa and loudly railing against human rights abuses against illegal migrants. Yet, he might want to exercise his &#8220;<em>dialogue&#8221; </em>voice for the rights of elderly Catholic bishops who remain detained, imprisoned or forcibly disappeared by the CCP.  As the Shepherd of the Church, he should demand that the Chinese government immediately free several Catholic bishops and clergy who have been imprisoned, forcibly disappeared, or subjected to house arrest and other harassment. Yet, cruelly,  nothing but silence from Rome for the elderly persecuted Chinese bishops.</p><h4 style="text-align: center;">The destruction of the remnants of the Catholic Church</h4><p>During the last 10 years,  Chinese authorities demolished hundreds of church buildings and/or the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/29/china-crusade-remove-crosses-from-churches-safety-concerns">crosses atop them</a>, prevented adherents from gathering in unofficial churches, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/world/asia/china-bans-bible-sales.html">restricted access</a> to the Bible, <a href="https://www.chinaaid.net/2020/10/blog-post.html">confiscated religious materials</a> not authorized by the government, and <a href="https://chinaaid.org/news/widely-used-global-catholic-app-hallow-removed-from-the-app-store-by-ccp-authorities/">banned Bible and religious apps</a>. Yet this is the regime the Vatican continues to treat as a trusted partner.</p><h4 style="text-align: center;">Persecution of the Underground Laity </h4><p>The latest 2025 Human Rights Watch <strong><a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/04/15/china-pressure-on-catholics-escalates">Report</a></strong>  finds that Chinese authorities are increasing their pressure on &#8220;underground&#8221; Catholic communities to join the state-controlled church.</p><p>Chinese authorities <strong><a href="https://chinaaid.org/news/the-catholic-church-of-china-officially-implements-centralized-control-of-travel-documents-clergy-placed-under-a-quasi-cadre-surveillance-system/">adopted</a> the following law:</strong> </p><p><em>&#8220;Provisional Regulations on the Standardized Management of Exit-and-Entry Travel Documents for the Catholic Clergy&#8221; in December 2025. All clergy members must surrender their passports to be held by the &#8220;Two Associations&#8221; of the state-controlled official church: the <strong><a href="http://www.cardinalkungfoundation.org/ar/ChineseCatholicPatrioticAsso.php">Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association</a></strong> and the <strong><a href="https://www.oikoumene.org/member-churches/china-christian-council">Christian Council</a></strong>. Regardless of the reason for travel, clergy must submit a written application at least 30 days prior, detailing the purpose, itinerary, and a signed letter of commitment.&#8221;</em></p><h4 style="text-align: center;">Why Isn&#8217;t Leo Protecting Catholics  against CCP Repression?</h4><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><h4><strong>&#8220;The 2018 Holy See-China agreement on bishops has helped the Chinese government to pressure underground Catholic communities to join the official church.&#8221; </strong></h4><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>~Human Rights Watch World Report on China 2025</strong></p></div><ol><li><p>The <strong><a href="https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2026/country-chapters/china"><span>Human Rights Watch World Report on China</span></a></strong> criticized the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mandate that all religious practice align with state ideology and Han-centric policies. Key findings from recent investigations include: </p><ol><li><p><strong><span>Coercion:</span></strong><span> Authorities routinely threaten, arbitrarily detain, and harass underground clergy who refuse to submit to state control.</span></p></li></ol></li></ol><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><strong><span>Vatican Agreement Impact:</span></strong><span> &#8220;</span><strong><span>A controversial agreement between the Vatican and China&#8212;which was renewed for a third time, most recently in October 2024&#8212;gives Beijing the power to nominate bishops. Human Rights Watch states that the government has exploited this to sever underground communities&#8217; ties with the Pope and force them into the state-sanctioned church.&#8221;  ~Human Rights Report 2025</span> </strong></p></div><p>HRW describes the deleterious impact of the Vatican/CCP Agreement. <em>&#8220;A decade into Xi Jinping&#8217;s Sinicization campaign and nearly eight years since the 2018 Holy See-China agreement, Catholics in China face escalating repression that violates their religious freedoms,&#8221; </em>said <a href="https://www.hrw.org/about/people/yalkun-uluyol">Yalkun Uluyol</a>, a China researcher at Human Rights Watch. <em>&#8220;Pope Leo XIV should urgently review the agreement and press Beijing to end the persecution and intimidation of underground churches, clergy, and worshipers.&#8221;</em></p><p>On April 7, 2026, Human Rights Watch sent a summary of its findings seeking comment from the Chinese government and the Holy See. <strong>Neither has responded.</strong></p><p>A member of an underground church, who left China in 2024, underscored the deep betrayal and appeasement by the Vatican which strengthened Communist control to destroy the Chinese Catholic Church.  </p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em><strong>&#8220;The [2018] Vatican agreement was used by the Chinese Communist Party as the most intelligent weapon to legally destroy underground churches. In practice, they arrested priests and bishops from the underground churches and told them: &#8220;The Vatican has ordered you to join the Patriotic Association.&#8221; The current reality has forced many priests into what they see as a double bind: join the Patriotic Association and betray their faith or refuse to join and lose their livelihood and face arrest.&#8221;</strong></em></p></div><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>CCP Intensifying Ideological Control over the Patriotic Catholic Church</strong></p><p>Catholic priests are now required to submit their teachings for review and approval by relevant authorities, in addition to longstanding state control over religious publications, said two experts on the situation of Catholics in China.</p><p>The tightening of ideological control is also evident in religious regulations and official documents issued since 2018. In December 2023, the Patriotic Association <a href="https://www.chinacatholic.cn/ccic/report/2404/0481-1.htm">published</a> a five-year plan to promote further Sinicization of Catholicism, calling for church doctrines, governance, rituals, and even church art to develop Chinese characteristics &#8220;compatible with socialist society.&#8221; The plan makes no reference to the Holy See or the 2018 agreement and instead urges adherence to Xi&#8217;s guidance with Sinicization, a term mentioned 73 times in the plan.</p><p>In September 2025, the Chinese authorities issued an <a href="https://www.chinacatholic.cn/ccic/report/2509/0140-1.htm">Online Code of Conduct for Religious Professionals</a>, banning the online circulation of unauthorized religious content and effectively limiting public access to religious teachings outside government control.</p><p>In December 2025, the National Religious Affairs Administration <a href="https://www.sara.gov.cn/static/content/ywdt/qtyw/2025-10-18/1429106704742645760.html">initiated</a> a nationwide campaign&#8212;&#8220;Study the Regulations, Observe Discipline, Cultivate Virtue, and Build a Good Image&#8221; (&#23398;&#27861;&#35268;&#12289;&#23432;&#25106;&#24459;&#12289;&#37325;&#20462;&#20026;&#12289; &#26641;&#24418;&#35937;)&#8212;which the Patriotic Association&#8217;s vice-chairman, Bishop Meng Qinglu, <a href="https://www.chinacatholic.cn/ccic/report/2601/0112-1.htm">said</a> aimed t<strong>o promote the Sinicization of Catholicism and patriotism by making the study of laws and Xi&#8217;s discourse compulsory.</strong></p><p><strong>Increasing Surveillance and Restrictions on Religious Activities</strong></p><p>In recent years, the Chinese government officials have also increased surveillance over official Catholic churches. The authorities have <a href="https://bitterwinter.org/facial-recognition-cameras-installed-in-state-run-religious-venues/">installed cameras</a> inside some churches to monitor activities.</p><p>A Catholic who left China in 2023 described to <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/04/15/china-pressure-on-catholics-escalates">Human Rights Watch </a>what happened after their congregation was forced to join the official patriotic church:</p><blockquote><p><em>After forcibly joining the official church, our church was in a state of panic, and some priests were forced to leave the county. <strong>We felt the Chinese government became more heavy-handed after the agreement. </strong>We started praying like we were thieves, gatherings for major holidays disappeared. We used to have mass in hours that everyone could join, which changed to unreasonable hours, so people cannot join.</em></p><p><em>The authorities also cancelled our choir singing and shuttered windows of the church so that prayers are not visible from outside. Children growing up now have no memory of church prayers or ceremonies. The church premises are strictly regulated, and we cannot bring children since bishops and priests are very much afraid of the government. At one point, before escaping China in 2023, I stopped going to the church to avoid government surveillance.</em></p></blockquote><p><a href="https://chinaaid.org/news/chinaaid-urges-vatican-to-end-secret-agreement-with-communist-china-stopcompromising-with-the-persecutors/">China Aid </a>is reporting that: </p><blockquote><p><em>The authorities now have started to strictly implement such bans, which a Catholic with firsthand knowledge of conditions in Shaanxi said in January 2026 &#8220;is aimed at cutting generational ties within the Catholic community.&#8221; The authorities <a href="https://www.chinaaid.net/2025/12/blog-post_03.html">closed</a> a church in Xuchang city in Henan province in December 2025 because it &#8220;violated relevant regulations by allowing minors to enter the church to play music instruments,&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p><a href="https://chinaaid.org/news/chinaaid-urges-vatican-to-end-secret-agreement-with-communist-china-stopcompromising-with-the-persecutors/">China Aid</a> is calling for Leo to terminate the agreement with China and &#8220;stop compromising with the persecutors.<strong>&#8221;</strong></p><p>A September 2025 internal document attributed to the Central United Front Leading Group, a high-level government body responsible for leading United Front work, which Human Rights Watch reviewed, says that parents in China &#8220;must <em>not </em>organize &#8230; home-based religious education to instill religious ideas to their children.&#8221; The document also tells schools to &#8220;guide students to proactively report&#8221; any such instances to the relevant authorities. </p><p>There are also credible reports that Chinese authorities in recent years have <a href="https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Chinese-priest-urges-the-Holy-Father-to-heed-the-voice-of-orphans,-the-weakest-and-truest-of-the-Church-in-China-52871.html">shut down</a> orphanages across the country, especially since the 2018 revised <a href="https://www.moj.gov.cn/pub/sfbgw/flfggz/flfggzxzfg/201709/t20170907_350638.html">Regulations on Religious Affairs</a> restricted the ability of individuals or organizations to engage in religiously oriented charitable activities.  Monitors of the situation of Catholics in China said in March 2026 that &#8220;over the last decade, [the Chinese] authorities removed the legal status of almost all social welfare facilities [owned by Catholics], including orphanages and centers for children with disabilities. Many of these children knew only the Catholic orphanages as their home and were suddenly ripped out of that safe environment and sent to a state institution.</p><p><strong>Restrictions on Clergy Travel, Foreign Ties</strong></p><p>In December 2025, the government issued the <a href="https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/shehui/2026/01/30/china-religion-catholic-christian-restriction/">Provisional Regulations on the Standardized Management of Exit-and-Entry Travel Documents for Catholic Clergy</a>, which ordered all Catholic clergy, including bishops, priests, deacons, and nuns, to submit their travel documents to supervising departments. Clergy can only get their travel documents back after applying to relevant departments for approval, a requirement even for personal travel. In recent years, the Chinese government has increasingly <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/02/18/china-right-leave-country-further-restricted">imposed</a> arbitrary restrictions on people&#8217;s internationally protected right to leave their country.</p><h2><strong>Oath Requirements for Priests in the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association</strong></h2><p>Priests who wish to join the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA) must adhere to specific requirements that reflect the organization&#8217;s alignment with the Chinese government. The oath they take includes the following key elements:</p><h3><strong>Key Elements of the Oath</strong></h3><ul><li><p><strong><span>Recognition of Government Authority</span></strong>: Priests must acknowledge the authority of the Chinese government over the church.</p></li><li><p><strong><span>Rejection of Papal Authority</span></strong>: They are required to renounce the authority of the Pope, which is a significant departure from traditional Catholic doctrine.</p></li></ul><p><a href="https://bitterwinter.org/catholic-training-in-beijing-centered-on-xi-jinping-not-the-popes-magisterium/">State&#8209;controlled bishops</a> and clergy are instructed to preach Party documents, while Catholic teaching remains absent and barred. Catholic training in Beijing is centered around the teaching of Xi Jinping and not Catholic magisterium.</p><h4 style="text-align: center;">Intense persecution on the Underground Church;</h4><h4 style="text-align: center;"> Bitterly Betrayed by the Vatican</h4><p>According to Yalkun Uluyol of <a href="https://bitterwinter.org/Vocabulary/human-rights/">Human Rights</a> Watch (HRW), in its <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/04/15/china-pressure-on-catholics-escalates">latest report</a>, China&#8217;s clandestine Catholic faithful are under more pressure than ever to sign up to Beijing&#8217;s &#8220;Sinicized&#8221; version of their faith.</p><p>&#8220;A decade into <a href="https://bitterwinter.org/Vocabulary/xi-jinping/">Xi Jinping</a>&#8217;s <a href="https://bitterwinter.org/Vocabulary/sinicization/">Sinicization</a> campaign and nearly eight years since the 2018 Holy See-China agreement, Catholics in China face escalating repression that violates their religious freedoms,&#8221; he said. He has urged Pope Leo XIV to &#8220;urgently review the agreement and press Beijing to end the persecution and intimidation of underground churches, clergy, and worshipers.&#8221;</p><p>Neither Francis nor Leo XIV has spoken up against the accelerated ideological control, surveillance, and travel restrictions of China, 12 million Catholics, with Pope Leo XIV having rubber-stamped Beijing&#8217;s five latest bishop appointments. The Vatican&#8217;s silence has emboldened Beijing to increase its stranglehold on all Catholics, both in the Patriotic Church and Underground Church.</p><p>According to the HRW report, some underground Catholics said they felt betrayed by the Vatican, and dozens of Catholics interviewed by one expert reported feelings that the Vatican is also <em>&#8220;coming after them.&#8221;</em></p><p><strong>A priest living abroad fears that because new bishops are not being appointed for the underground church, </strong><em><strong>&#8220;in the long run, underground Catholics [in China] will be gone.&#8221; </strong></em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Wukr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1c36741d-5493-4bb4-96ff-0c8a4221172b_1212x2074.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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</h4><p><a href="https://jubileecampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/CRC-China-Report.pdf">The Jubilee Campaign </a>issued an extensive report on the People&#8217;s Republic of China&#8217;s violations of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child with regards to Freedom of Religion or Belief, as well as linguistic and cultural rights.  It paints a brutal picture of religious persecution against Chinese children. </p><p>Following the implementation of the Regulations on Religious Affairs in 2018, <em>(before the execution of the Vatican pact) </em>provincial governments have banned minors from attending any religious-based activities, prohibited religious curriculum in schools, engaged in campaigns to discourage children from religious conviction, harassed families, and have even similarly cracked down on the cultural and linguistic expressions and practices of religious minorities throughout the nation.</p><p>The highly respected 2020 Jubilee Report highlighted the following human rights abuses against Chinese children:</p><p>i. Christian children are punished, threatened, excluded, and rebuked for their families&#8217; and their own religious affiliation. </p><p>ii. Christian children under the age of 18 years are prohibited from attending religious worship services and events.</p><p>iii. Christian children are prohibited from receiving religious education and face persecution for revealing their religious affiliation in school. </p><p>iv. Christian children and their teachers are forced into anti-religious and pro-atheist indoctrination excursions and programs.</p><p>v. Christian families are wary of private worship as a result of the government's multi-faceted crackdown on religion. </p><p>This report offered a detailed analysis of the ways in which children of  all religious convictions in China are deprived of their rights to freedom of belief at the hands of the oppressive Chinese Communist Party and municipal governments across the country. </p><p>The Committee on the Rights of the Child raised the alarm regarding the People&#8217;s Republic of China&#8217;s breach of the Convention on the Rights of the Child article 14. The Committee recommended that the government of China to &#8220;take all necessary measures&#8221; to &#8220;effectively guarantee the right of freedom of thought, conscience and religion for those under 18.&#8221;  The CCP ignores the international human rights community and continues to suppress all religious practices for children.</p><p>Notably, the Vatican entered into its secret pact with the CCP <em>after</em> these repressive laws were imposed on children.  The Vatican remains complicitly silent about these egregious human rights violations against children in China, despite its incessant stance for human rights for illegal migrants.</p><p>History will not judge the Vatican/China agreement by the promises made in secret, but by the faithful who paid the price in public. Every imprisoned bishops, every shuttered church, and every persecuted Catholic stands as an indictment of a policy that placed diplomatic accommodation above the defense of the Church&#8217;s own flock in China.</p><p>The tragedy of the Vatican&#8217;s agreement with Beijing is not merely that it failed to restrain persecution, but that it has become inseparable from the very persecution it was meant to alleviate. No diplomatic objective can justify a policy that in the eyes of the world, has left China&#8217;s Catholics abandoned to an increasingly hostile regime.</p><p>The verdict belongs to history, not to the diplomats. Agreements may be signed in silence, but they are judged by their consequences. If the price of preserving a diplomatic pact is the continued suffering of faithful Catholics under an authoritarian regime, then the agreement has failed its highest moral test. </p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcoming Perversion: Hide your Children From the Synodal Church ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Synod Study Report #9 gaslights Catholics, calling them homophobes and transphobes for not welcoming the LBGTQIA+ into parishes. Yet, June "Pride Month" exposes the grim reality.]]></description><link>https://lizyore.substack.com/p/welcoming-perversion-hide-your-children</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lizyore.substack.com/p/welcoming-perversion-hide-your-children</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Yore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:15:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Kmla!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F24ab0599-daf7-4050-a54d-e1372a3ba8b9_1531x1027.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Kmla!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F24ab0599-daf7-4050-a54d-e1372a3ba8b9_1531x1027.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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M&#252;ller,</strong></em><strong> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Trojan-Horse-Catholic-Church-Synodality/dp/B0FWR6Y6Q4/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3V3UBBA00SYJ8&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.6AKwFGc4P7_Y6Cn7sJYza5GyRyG4aUlVoJT3-fPjedGt-MRagCVC8VLPxjDyOs1pCK7MMNB08vt1NhQH0XLCVNvrPLmHi4yrlRYxFIi0cOeveKeenUPu2LWykpeqVJpD8olbbjx06uWnkelMK3_a2v7qQyH87zPJ2sPAn3QWIAEgGbEglcroV7llNh0pA5UsO-7aBWV4c7Xzv2aFtgvXv6ueKjNw20SzA83sRm-WQkA.M2TquBI3u9SY60ziYx7ltekqksPFDyrLTPsJyMuNsRs&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=in+the+presence+of+the+trojan+horse&amp;qid=1782932546&amp;sprefix=in+the+presence+of+the+trojan+horse%2Caps%2C137&amp;sr=8-1">Preface, </a></strong><em><strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Trojan-Horse-Catholic-Church-Synodality/dp/B0FWR6Y6Q4/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3V3UBBA00SYJ8&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.6AKwFGc4P7_Y6Cn7sJYza5GyRyG4aUlVoJT3-fPjedGt-MRagCVC8VLPxjDyOs1pCK7MMNB08vt1NhQH0XLCVNvrPLmHi4yrlRYxFIi0cOeveKeenUPu2LWykpeqVJpD8olbbjx06uWnkelMK3_a2v7qQyH87zPJ2sPAn3QWIAEgGbEglcroV7llNh0pA5UsO-7aBWV4c7Xzv2aFtgvXv6ueKjNw20SzA83sRm-WQkA.M2TquBI3u9SY60ziYx7ltekqksPFDyrLTPsJyMuNsRs&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=in+the+presence+of+the+trojan+horse&amp;qid=1782932546&amp;sprefix=in+the+presence+of+the+trojan+horse%2Caps%2C137&amp;sr=8-1">The Trojan Horse in the Catholic Church.</a></strong></em></h5></div><h4><strong>The Trojan Horse has Breached the Gates: The Synodal Syndicate&#8217;s Diabolical Plot Exposed</strong></h4><p>The hidden dagger of the synodal syndicate is plunging straight into the heart of the Catholic Church with the brazen release of the <a href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/process/implementation/10workinggroups/final-reports/sg9/SG-9_Final-Report.pdf">Synod Study Group #9 Report.</a> This is no mere document&#8212;it is a Trojan Horse rolled through St. Peter&#8217;s Bronze doors, swinging them wide open to usher in the full embrace of LGBTQIa+ ideology and its destructive conduct.  <br></p><p>Under the slick guise of &#8220;inclusion&#8221; and &#8220;welcoming,&#8221; the architects of this synodal revolution are smuggling the spirit of the modern age into the sanctuary of Christ&#8217;s Church. The real cost is measured in desecrated innocence and a trail of spiritual corpses. This false and sexual exploitation has already cost the Church billions,  while countless children and vulnerable souls are left exposed to predation&#8212;groomed, scandalized and abandoned by the hierarchy that now bless what God has condemned.</p><p>Have the prelates learned nothing from the moral and financial bankruptcy in the last 3 decades of scandalous predation?</p><p> Cardinal Gerhard Muller ripped the mask off the secret synodal plottings. He thunders the truth that Catholics must hear:  </p><blockquote><h4><sup>&#8220;</sup><em><sup>They (the Synodal leaders) are introducing a new hermeneutic with which they want to reconcile the Word of God with these ideologies&#8212;anti-Christian ideologies. But we cannot reconcile Christ and the Antichrist. This homosexual, LGBT ideology is, at its center, an anti-Christian ideology. It&#8217;s the spirt of the Antichrist speaking through them.&#8221; </sup></em></h4></blockquote><p>This is not pastoral mercy. This is outright betrayal. It is the smoke of Satan billowing through the synodal halls of the Vatican, poisoning doctrine, choking liturgy, and deadening the souls of the faithful&#8212;especially the most vulnerable: our children.</p><h4>A Painting that Captures the Synodal Sexual Revolution</h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wQLU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fedea9a09-22ce-47a4-8057-474403a8cd75_550x823.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wQLU!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="text-align: center;">(close up) Paglia is embracing a male homo &amp; touched by a lesbian's knee;</p><p>Long before the 2021 opening of the Synod on Synodality, and Bergoglio&#8217;s &#8220;<em>who am I to judge&#8221;</em> comment about his appointment of a homosexual to the Vatican Bank, the rainbow handwriting was on the wall. </p><p>Remember the erotic mural on the ceiling of  the <a href="https://mail.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/P045_Mural.htm">Cathedral of Ternni commissioned by Bishop Vincenzo Paglia</a>. Paglia hired a prominent homosexual artist to paint a blasphemous mural in the sanctuary of his diocesan cathedral, which depicts Jesus (whose image is painted with the face of a local male hairdresser) lifting two nets to heaven filled with <em>&#8220;naked and semi-nude homosexuals, transsexuals, prostitutes and drug dealers, jumbled together in erotic interactions, in which the genitals of Jesus are visible beneath a see-through garment.&#8221;</em> Shockingly, Paglia appeared in the painting, included in the nets, semi-nude embracing a loin clothed male homosexual and touched by a lesbian&#8217;s knee. The artist declared that the naked people in the nets are meant to be &#8220;erotic.&#8221;  </p><p>Nevertheless, in 2012, despite his controversy as an erotic art connoisseur, Paglia was richly rewarded for this profanity by the Vatican with a prominent appointment as President of Pontifical Council for the Family and elevated to Archbishop. </p><p><a href="https://mail.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/P045_Mural.htm">In July of 2016,</a> under the direction of Paglia the Pontifical Council for the Family issued a new sex ed program that included highly lewd and pornographic images so disturbing that a psychiatrist suggested that Paglia be evaluated by a review board according to the Dallas Charter norms set down to protect children from sexual abuse. Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons, a psychiatrist who consults with the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy warned:</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;My immediate professional reaction was that this obscene or pornographic approach abuses youth psychologically and spiritually.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p><em><strong>&#8220;As a professional who has treated both priest perpetrators and victims of the abuse crisis in the Church, what I found particularly troubling was that the ponorgraphic images in this program are similar to those used by adult sexual predators of adolescents.&#8221;</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>Fear not, Francis elevated Paglia from the Pontifical Council for the Family to the Presidency of the Pontifical Academy for Life and to the Pontifical Pope John Paul II Institute on Studies on Marriage and Family. How curious and troubling that Paglia was chosen to head these family academies. </p><p>Not surprisingly, <strong>Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia was also a participant in the Synod on Synodality in the first session of the October 2023. </strong></p><p>A pattern is emerging in the Vatican: promote eroticism and pornography and elevate your career. One might even end up as the <a href="https://www.ewtnnews.com/vatican/cardinal-victor-fernandez-book-sexual-themes-vatican-doctrine">Prefect of Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.</a></p><p>Recently, Paglia again resurfaces in a <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/abp-paglia-francis-wanted-to-adapt-doctrine-to-the-new-times-on-homosexuality-moral-theology/">May 21, 2026 </a>interview following the release of the Synodal Study Group Report# 9 stating that the acceptance of homosexual acts has been the goal of the Synod on Synodality from the beginning. <span> In the interview published by the Italian outlet </span><em><a href="https://www.settimananews.it/reportage-interviste/paglia-le-mie-riforme-con-francesco/">Settimana News</a></em><span>, </span><a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/abp-paglia-francis-wanted-to-adapt-doctrine-to-the-new-times-on-homosexuality-moral-theology/"><span>Paglia gave an extensive account </span></a><span>of the reforms he carried out under Pope Francis at the Pontifical Academy for Life and the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences, arguing that both institutions had to be transformed in order to align with the theological and pastoral direction promoted during Francis&#8217; pontificate, especially after the Synods on the Family and the publication of </span><em>Amoris Laetitia</em><span> in 2016.</span></p><p><em><strong>Exhibit 1, Synod <a href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/process/implementation/10workinggroups/final-reports/sg9/SG-9_Final-Report.pdf">Study Report #9.</a></strong></em></p><p>In anticipation of <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/synod-report-suggests-homosexual-relationships-may-not-be-sinful/">June </a><em><a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/synod-report-suggests-homosexual-relationships-may-not-be-sinful/">Pride</a></em><a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/synod-report-suggests-homosexual-relationships-may-not-be-sinful/"> Month, the lavender synodal fathers released the Synodal Study Group #9 Report,</a> and urged that:</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The synodal process, in reality, calls for a conversion of heart and mind as well as a transformation of practices so that we may walk with fidelity and renewed vigour, as the People of God, along the path traced out in history by the Gospel of Jesus. Particular care must be given to those who find themselves living on the existential, social, and cultural &#8220;peripheries.&#8221; It is in this perspective that we consider it more appropriate to describe the issues in question <strong>as &#8216;emerging&#8217; rather than &#8216;controversial.&#8217; </strong></em></p></blockquote><p>Note carefully, the sleight of hand tactics by the synodal scriveners. Words become the camouflage. Through a classic linguistic bait and switch, the Synodal fathers substitute therapeutic and ambiguous language for precise theological terms, recasting a substantial doctrinal change as merely a change in tone.  The rhetorical strategy risks confusing the faithful while aligning the new synodal language more closely wiht prevailing global, cultural and political priorities than with its traditional doctrinal vocabulary.  </p><p>This is the heart of the Synodal project: Rid the Church of its rigid magisterium, outdated dogma, backward practices and attitudes; &#8220;welcome all&#8221; into the inclusive and ever enlarging tent of James Martin, S.J. and his ideological allies. The <a href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/process/implementation/10workinggroups/final-reports/sg9/SG-9_Final-Report.pdf">synod scriveners </a>even dared to gaslight faithful Catholics for their biased views:</p><blockquote><p><em><a href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/process/implementation/10workinggroups/final-reports/sg9/SG-9_Final-Report.pdf">However, it also brings</a> to light the many misunderstandings within the Christian community, rooted in attitudes of homophobia and transphobia. Ultimately, this testimony emphasizes how the Christian community, at all levels &#8211; local and universal &#8211; can represent a decisive place of &#8220;healing and inclusion&#8221; through practices of welcome and hospitality.</em></p></blockquote><p>Branding the faithful as <em>homophobic and transphobic i</em>n Vatican documents marks a new low in ecclesial gaslighting.<em>  </em>Moral and theological arguments are absent in the synodal tranche, replaced by hollow and sentimental greetings of a <em>welcoming and inclusive Church </em>toward LGBTQIa+individuals. Gird yourself for the new and improved Catholic Church transformed into a welcoming Hilton Hotel on a hot day in Key West at the expense of the faith. </p><p>Sound harsh? </p><h4 style="text-align: center;">NEUTRALITY IS THE NEW MORALITY</h4><p><strong><a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-archbishop-bans-mens-group-from-praying-rosary-at-cathedral-to-counter-lgbt-pride-parade/">Exhibit #2:</a> </strong>This June month of pride, Archbishop Robert Casey, Cupich&#8217;s former Vicar General blocked a Catholic Men&#8217;s group from praying the rosary on the steps of  Cincinnati&#8217;s Basilica of St. Peter in Chains, to counter the LGBT pride parade, which routinely includes obscenely dressed men and women who parade pass the Cathedral. The specious reason given by Casey for the prohibition of the rosary?  Casey wanted to remain <strong>&#8220;neutral to the LGBT Pride&#8221; </strong>event.  <strong>Neutrality is the new Morality. </strong>Apparently, Casey executed the new synodal orders of non judgmental accompaniment as the Pride parade &#8220;journeyed&#8221; past the Catholic Cathedral.  </p><p>St. Peter in Chains is rolling in his grave.</p><p>If the recommendations of the <a href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/process/implementation/10workinggroups/final-reports/sg9/SG-9_Final-Report.pdf">Synodal Study Group #9 </a>are implemented in the expansive manner, Catholics, especially parents must question the moral and practical consequences for themselves and their children in parish life.    </p><p>~Will the <em>aggrieved and persecuted</em> class of homosexuals and transgenders seek to transform the church into rainbow banners billowing from the Church rafters? </p><p>~Will the Holy Bible be changed to eradicate offensive transphobic and homophobic passages so as not to hurt the sensitivities to the LGBTQia+ congregants?</p><p>~Will the Local Ordinary Bishop require every parish to formalize LGBT outreach programs into the parish ministry life? </p><p>~Will churches be infiltrated with public displays of sexual acting out by LGBTQIA++?</p><p>~Will the USCCB issue formal guidelines for Catholic sex ed curriculum that mandates pro LGBTQIa+ themes and materials? </p><p>~Will the synodal <em>welcoming and inclusive mandate </em>require all Catholic schools,  RCIA, CCD, and religious education classes adopt a <em>queer theology curriculum and catechesis</em>?</p><p>~Will Catholic masses become venues for ideological political activism rather than celebrations of solemn religious holy days?  Absurd? 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Parish in the context of the city&#8217;s Pride March</em> <em>along with Bishop Emeritus Ra&#250;l Vera. The organizer&#8217;s account describes LGBT collectives participating in the readings, music, and offertory. A rainbow flag was accepted near the lectern. Another flag with the logos of the groups was offered.&#8221; </em></p><p><strong>Exhibit #3:</strong></p><p>Catholics need only point to the widely reported 2024 funeral service at St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral as a cautionary and disturbing example.  The <em>&#8220;welcoming&#8221;</em> service at trans activist Cecile Gentili was dominated by blasphemous and profane antics from the LGBTQ crowd. The service mocked everything Catholic from the saints to the Blessed Mother.  The congregation sang out viva voce that <strong>Cecilia is the &#8220;Mother of all Whores.&#8221;  </strong>Is this the Synod&#8217;s concept of <em>Inclusion</em>?</p><p>Even the <a href="https://archive.is/2024.02.19-170532/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/nyregion/cecilia-gentili-funeral-st-patricks-cathedral.html#selection-483.296-483.336">NY Times called Gentili&#8217;s funeral service </a>at St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral, &#8220;<em>an exuberant piece of political theater.&#8221;  Over 1,000 mourners, several hundred of whom were transgender, arrived in daring outfits &#8212; glittery miniskirts and halter tops, fishnet stockings, sumptuous fur stoles and at least one boa sewed from what appeared to be $100 bills. </em></p><p><em>Mass cards and a picture near the altar showed a haloed Ms. Gentili surrounded by the Spanish words for <strong>&#8220;transvestite,&#8221; &#8220;whore,&#8221; &#8220;blessed&#8221; and &#8220;mother&#8221; </strong>above the text of Psalm 25.&#8220; </em>At Sunday Mass,  will Catholic parents and their children be greeted by transgender parishioners outfitted in his Sunday best risque outfit? </p><p>(Seen below at the Gentili funeral)</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O6Wm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2931afc-7a02-4994-a406-7bc9ec4464cc_209x280.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O6Wm!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2931afc-7a02-4994-a406-7bc9ec4464cc_209x280.jpeg 424w, 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demonstrated throughout the transgender&#8217;s funeral service. </p><p>As the NY Times detailed, <em>&#8220;At one point,  Ms. Gentili&#8217;s friend took the lectern to pray for access to gender-affirming health care. While a mourner upstaged a priest singing &#8220;Ave Maria,&#8221; changing the lyrics to &#8220;Ave Cecilia.&#8221; She then danced through the aisles, red scarves twirling around her.</em>&#8221;</p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nvRn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8d05ec5-16a2-487f-a66a-23e642603f33_1440x2160.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nvRn!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8d05ec5-16a2-487f-a66a-23e642603f33_1440x2160.webp 424w, 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/__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8d05ec5-16a2-487f-a66a-23e642603f33_1440x2160.webp 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>photo: Participant at the Gentili funeral at St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral</p><p>Behold the &#8220;<em>welcoming and hospitable&#8221; </em>Synodal church! It will drag faithful parents and their children out of its rainbow tent of inclusion unless they kneel and submit to LGBT indoctrination.   Reverence, propriety, decency will be the discarded as it was at St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral and replaced with profane behavior and political imagery of the homosexual liberation movement. </p><p><strong>The logical consequences of the Synod Study 9 Report on LGBTQ sex normalization are on display at the lewd, obscene, and boisterous Gentili funeral.  Are Catholics to ignore that reality? Apparently, yes.  The Synod documents shift the burden of acceptance to the Christian faithful throughout the Report:</strong> </p><blockquote><p><em>In this light, the Christian community is invited to ask:<strong> how can we more deeply understand the human and moral experience of believers with same-sex attraction</strong>s, drawing not only on the light of the Word of God but also on a transdisciplinary approach?</em> <a href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/process/implementation/10workinggroups/final-reports/sg9/SG-9_Final-Report.pdf">Synod 9</a></p></blockquote><p>Is this a new pastoral requirement of Catholics?  Exactly, how is the community <strong> </strong><em>&#8220;to more deeply understand the human and moral experience of believers with same-sex attractions?&#8221; </em></p><p>~Will there be a Sunday obligation to attend a gay Pride parade?<em> </em></p><p><em>~</em>Will the pastor issue a spiritual requirement to hang a gay flag outside your home? </p><p>~Will the parish council now verify if parishioners display a &#8220;<strong>HATE HAS NO HOME HERE&#8221; </strong>sign in the front yard? </p><p>~Will parishioners be required to sit through a gay sensitivity training during Pride month? </p><p>~Will Catholic schools mandate a <a href="https://mail.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/P045_Mural.htm">Paglia type sex education curriculum</a>?</p><h4 style="text-align: center;">Exhibitionism, Grooming, Public Indecency</h4><p><em><strong>Exhibit 4: The LGBTQ Pride Parades in June</strong></em></p><p>Globally, the month of June is marked with public celebrations of <em>pride</em> festivities in all its grotesque depravity and lewdness.  Before the guilt tripping by the Synodal fathers incurs any more shame on Catholic homophobes and transphobes, let the photos and news stories speak for themselves.  </p><p>Ponder the insulting synodal chastisement to understand the <em>&#8220;moral experience of believers with same-sex attractions&#8221; </em>on the public streets during 2026 Pride month:</p><h4><strong><a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/watch-seattle-pride-parade-participants-strip-naked-chase/">WATCH: Seattle Pride Parade Participants Strip Naked, Chase Children Around Water Fountain</a></strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ucd_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F25018888-c7d9-4b0c-9dbe-89009fd40909_1200x630.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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Here are a few of many typical scenes during Pride Month abound in cities across the world. </p><p><strong>~The Gateway Pundit has <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/fully-naked-men-expose-their-genitalia-children-seattle/">reported</a> on past Seattle Pride parades, where, likewise, naked men rode bikes and flashed children as they rode by. </strong></p><p><strong>~A black Mini Cooper is then seen driving through the parade with a giant black d**do on the hood, and people wearing demented costumes follow-- all in front of children as young as toddlers.</strong></p><p><strong>~Fully naked adults exposed themselves to children in Seattle, Washington, at a pride parade on Sunday.</strong></p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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How welcoming!</p><p>Contrary to the synodal sterile and sympathetic rendering of the LGBT movement, these images portray immoral, smutty, vulgar,  obscene, lewd and public acts of indecency and child exploitation.  Is indecent public exhibitionism the new moral code adopted by the synodal sexual syndicate? </p><p><a href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/process/implementation/10workinggroups/final-reports/sg9/SG-9_Final-Report.pdf">The Synodal Report #9</a> manipulates reality by portraying the LGBT persons as unjustly discriminated and disadvantaged outcasts on the <em>peripheries</em> of society who are in need of special protections from the Catholic Church. However, reality paints a far more sinister agenda; the lgbt community is vastly powerful, massively funded,  and flexes its enormous political and collective muscle at all levels of society. </p><p>So what is behind this Synodal charade of sentimentalism for the LGBT movement? </p><p>The Synod on Synodality is setting the stage for the Catholic Global Reset. At the Synod&#8217;s onset, <a href="https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2023/01/13/cardinal-pell-calls-synod-process-toxic-nightmare/">Cardinal George Pell </a>described the Synod on Synodality as a <em>&#8220;toxic nightmare.&#8221; </em>He identified that the goal of the Synod lurked a global reset&#8212; an entirely new paradigm, which erodes, then eliminates Catholic dogma, truths, practice and institutional hierarchy. </p><p>Cardinal Gerhard M&#252;ller wrote in the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Trojan-Horse-Catholic-Church-Synodality/dp/B0FWR6Y6Q4/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3V3UBBA00SYJ8&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.6AKwFGc4P7_Y6Cn7sJYza5GyRyG4aUlVoJT3-fPjedGt-MRagCVC8VLPxjDyOs1pCK7MMNB08vt1NhQH0XLCVNvrPLmHi4yrlRYxFIi0cOeveKeenUPu2LWykpeqVJpD8olbbjx06uWnkelMK3_a2v7qQyH87zPJ2sPAn3QWIAEgGbEglcroV7llNh0pA5UsO-7aBWV4c7Xzv2aFtgvXv6ueKjNw20SzA83sRm-WQkA.M2TquBI3u9SY60ziYx7ltekqksPFDyrLTPsJyMuNsRs&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=in+the+presence+of+the+trojan+horse&amp;qid=1782932546&amp;sprefix=in+the+presence+of+the+trojan+horse%2Caps%2C137&amp;sr=8-1">Preface of </a><em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Trojan-Horse-Catholic-Church-Synodality/dp/B0FWR6Y6Q4/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3V3UBBA00SYJ8&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.6AKwFGc4P7_Y6Cn7sJYza5GyRyG4aUlVoJT3-fPjedGt-MRagCVC8VLPxjDyOs1pCK7MMNB08vt1NhQH0XLCVNvrPLmHi4yrlRYxFIi0cOeveKeenUPu2LWykpeqVJpD8olbbjx06uWnkelMK3_a2v7qQyH87zPJ2sPAn3QWIAEgGbEglcroV7llNh0pA5UsO-7aBWV4c7Xzv2aFtgvXv6ueKjNw20SzA83sRm-WQkA.M2TquBI3u9SY60ziYx7ltekqksPFDyrLTPsJyMuNsRs&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=in+the+presence+of+the+trojan+horse&amp;qid=1782932546&amp;sprefix=in+the+presence+of+the+trojan+horse%2Caps%2C137&amp;sr=8-1">The Trojan Horse in the Catholic Church</a>, that the Synod&#8217;s goal is to normalize and accept homosexuality: </em></p><blockquote><p><em><strong>As an attempt to transform the Church of Christ into a secular, worldly institution guided not by the teaching of Our Lord as revealed in Sacred Scripture and Apostolic tradition; but rather, a call to embrace, in the fashion of the Modernist heresy, &#8220;democratic&#8221; principles as a guide for the Church&#8217;s doctrinal and moral teachings, while at the same time boldly (and shamelessly) claiming the Holy Spirit&#8217;s inspiration and guidance&#8230;..One of the main goals was to further the normalization of homosexuality. </strong></em></p></blockquote><p>When the Synodal leaders twist and eradicate Scripture to accommodate the very ideologies that prey upon innocence, they do not &#8220;accompany&#8221; the lost&#8212;they hand the lambs over to the wolves.</p><p>Catholics, awaken! The Synodal sexual syndicate is not reforming the Church. It is crucifying Her anew. Christ and Belial cannot walk together. The Antichrist does not dialogue-he devours. </p><p>The battle lines are drawn. The time for polite silence is over. Defend the Faith with fire in your veins, or watch the Bride of Christ be dragged into the abyss and Her children, the innocent lambs entrusted to her care-sacrificed on the altar of false mercy, devoured by wolves in shepherd&#8217;s clothing, and delivered into the hands of the very predators the synodal syndicate now seeks to normalize and bless.</p><p>The Great Reset elite globalists and their LGBT servants are turning their vast political fire power against the Catholic Church-the last bastion that upholds the natural law.  The Catholic Church stands as the final obstacle to the one world religion. As such, Catholic teaching must be co-opted, gutted and neutralized to align with a new world religion, where Christ and His Word is dethroned by a welcoming and inclusive mandate with counterfeit spirituality. </p><p>The Synod on Synodality is the mechanism to achieve this demonic goal and it must be stopped at all costs. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mad Dash toward Synodal Suicide]]></title><description><![CDATA[Synodal Inc., is hurtling toward the UN's Agenda 2030 deadline, accelerating the Great Spiritual Reset before the deadline expires.]]></description><link>https://lizyore.substack.com/p/the-mad-dash-toward-synodal-suicide</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lizyore.substack.com/p/the-mad-dash-toward-synodal-suicide</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Yore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:28:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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Cardinal Mario Grech, the Secretary General of the Synod wrote in the 2025 <a href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/news/2025-03-15_letter_process2028/ENG_Letter_To_the_Bishops_-_implementation_phase_of_the_Synod.pdf">Synodal Pathways letter </a>and addressed the need for immediate action from 2025-2028:</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;It is the urgency of this mission that drives us to implement the Synod, a task for which all the Baptised share responsibility.</strong>&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>What is this <em>urgent mission</em>?  Why suddenly is there a frantic sprint to get there? So much for the leisurely pilgrimage of mutual listening. After years of sermons about <em>listening, dialogue, accompaniment, discernment</em>, <em>and journeying</em> the Synodal machine is now suddenly racing toward 2030 as if heaven, itself imposed a filing deadline. </p><p>Weren&#8217;t we listening to the promptings of the <em>Spirit </em>during this synodal stroll to spiritual nirvana?  Who imposed the stop clock on the Third Person of the Trinity? </p><p>According to General Cardinal Grech, the hijacked Holy Spirit now is expected to step it up and submit to quarterly objectives and implementation milestones. For a process that claims to have no predetermined outcome, it now displays an astonishing anxiety to meet one.</p><p>Catholics were assured that <em>synodality(whatever that is) </em>was not about outcomes, but about journeying; not about conclusions but conversations; not about destinations, but discernment. Weren&#8217;t Catholics urged to spend years listening, journeying and<em> </em>accompanying one another through the sacred fog of perpetual dialogue, and waiting upon the {<em>Holy</em>} Spirit to direct us? </p><p>Yet suddenly and curiously,  the <em>Spirit </em>appears to have adopted a set timetable, more like a corporate strategic plan. One begins to suspect that the destination was known all along, and that the <em>&#8220;journey&#8221;</em> was merely a pleasant way of keeping everyone occupied until arrival. The sentimental &#8220;<em>journey&#8221;</em> language was to lure the travellers into complacency while the real agenda was concealed.</p><p>The precise synodal marching orders now appear and are delineated in the <a href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/process/implementation/pathways/250102---ENG-Pathways-for-the-implementation-phase.pdf">Synodal Pathways</a> document which provide the strict timeline of deliverables for the implementation phase of the Synodal Church:</p><blockquote><p><em>The <strong>Ecclesial Assembly will be held in October 2028. The following stages are communicated to the global church: </strong></em></p><p><em><strong>&#61623; June 2025 &#8211; December 2026:</strong> implementation activities in local Churches and their groupings;</em></p><p><em><strong> &#61623; First semester of 2027:</strong> evaluation Assemblies in Dioceses and Eparchies; </em></p><p><em><strong>&#61623; Second semester 2027:</strong> evaluation Assemblies in national and international Episcopal Conferences, Eastern hierarchical structures and in other groupings of Churches; </em></p><p><em><strong>&#61623; First four months of 2028:</strong> continental evaluation Assemblies;</em></p><p><em><strong>&#61623; October 2028: </strong>Ecclesial Assembly in the Vatican. </em></p></blockquote><p>Why the mad rush to seal the synodal deal before 2030? The once leisurely synodal journey is now a race to the finish line. Wasn&#8217;t the Synodal journey supposed to be an open ended pilgrimage of accompaniment and dialoguing?  Suddenly, it&#8217;s a headlong  sprint to meet a 2030 deadline. What changed?  Whose calendar governs the Vatican&#8217;s timetable?  And why does the Synod&#8217;s finish line seem to coincide so neatly with other global ambitions for 2030?</p><p>The timeline runs conspicuously parallel to the UN&#8217;s Agenda 2030, while the Synod&#8217;s stated priorities&#8212;human fraternity, the common good, climate action, mass migration, the cry of the poor, and the cry of Mother Earth&#8212;mirror the very themes embedded in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. </p><p>In point of fact, the General Secretariat of the Synod with its working groups, study groups, reports, meetings and deadlines mimics the bureaucratic structure of the UN General Secretariat for Agenda 2030. The convergence is difficult to ignore. Both projects appear to be moving in tandem toward a transformed vision of global governance, with the Synod supplying the spiritual and moral narrative that complements the UN&#8217;s political and social agenda.</p><h4 style="text-align: center;">The Vatican is marching in lockstep with the UN&#8217;s Agenda 2030.</h4><p>Throughout his reign, Francis expressed a full throated endorsement for the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In 2019 at a <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019-03/pope-development-goals-rooted-in-ethics-not-economics.html">Vatican International Conference </a>entitled, <em><strong>&#8220;Religions and the Sustainable Development Goals&#8221; </strong></em>Francis extolled the goals:</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals</strong> <strong>were a great step forward for global dialogue, marking a vitally &#8220;new and universal solidarity&#8221;.</strong>  He added , &#8220;<strong>for too long, the conventional idea of development has been almost entirely limited to economic growth.&#8221;</strong></em></p></blockquote><p><strong>UN Global dialogue? </strong></p><p>Curiously, the UN champions &#8220;global dialogue.&#8221; Similarly, the Synod on Synodality promotes incessant &#8220;dialogue.&#8221; The resemblance is more than semantic-it is strategic. Francis&#8217; enthusiastic endorsement of the &#8220;UN&#8217;s global dialogue&#8221; is virtually indistinguishable from the Synod&#8217;s mantra of dialogue, listening and encounter. The common vocabulary reflects a common vision. More strikingly, Francis conferred a distinctly religious legitimacy upon the UN Sustainable development Goals when he proclaimed: </p><blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;promoting and implementing the</strong> <strong>development goals that are supported by our deepest religious and ethical values.&#8221;</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>At that point, the SDGs ceased to be merely a technocratic blueprint and were recast as a moral mission worthy of religious support from the Catholic Church. </p><p><a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019-03/pope-development-goals-rooted-in-ethics-not-economics.html">Concluding his address </a>and quoting from his encyclical <em>Laudato Si,</em> Francis told those at the conference that, </p><blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;three and a half years since the adoption of the sustainable development goals, we must be even more acutely aware of the importance of accelerating and adapting our actions in responding adequately to both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.&#8221;</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>He added, <em><strong>&#8220;the challenges are complex and have multiple causes; the response, therefore, must necessarily be complex and well-structured, respectful of the diverse cultural riches of peoples.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p>In 2015, the Francis Vatican joined the race to meet the 2030 deadline. Henceforth, the papal imprimatur affirmed the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030, not merely as policy objectives, but as causes carrying moral and spiritual weight. </p><p>Both institutions demand that the fraternal brotherhood of man serve Mother Earth. Ecological justice, global governance, equitable distribution, mass migration, and gender ideology are the shared vocabulary of both enterprises. The parallel timelines and overlapping objectives suggest more than coincidence. One advances the political architecture; the other provides the spiritual justification. Together they point toward an emerging global order seeking a political and religious transformation and realignment: The Great Reset.</p><p>It is essential that the conspicuous convergence of the Vatican&#8217;s Synodal timetable with the UN&#8217;s Agenda 2030 arrive simultaneously on cue. The Synod&#8217;s governing themes&#8212;human fraternity, climate stewardship, social inclusion, ending poverty&#8212;mimic the language, urgency, and priorities of the Sustainable Development Goals with striking precision. As 2030 approaches, the two projects increasingly resemble parallel tracks headed toward the same destination: a new global framework in which political governance and spiritual authority are woven together under a common vision of one global order.</p><h4 style="text-align: center;">The Heat is Turned Up</h4><p>The coordination is impossible to miss. </p><p>Like clockwork, the story broke just this week. It perfectly illustrates the UN/Vatican coordination.</p><p>No sooner had the United Nations just released its latest climate-risk report than the June 12, 2006 <a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=69770">Vatican newspaper, </a><em><a href="https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=69770">L&#8217;Osservatore Romano&#8217;s </a>f</em>ront page amplified it with a screeching sensational headline warning that: </p><blockquote><h4><em><strong>&#8220;Climate Emergencies threaten 1 billion children.&#8221;</strong></em> </h4></blockquote><p>Like the dutiful UN/SDG servant, the Leo Vatican continues to function as a spiritual megaphone for the UN&#8217;s environmental alarmist messaging. The formula is simple: invoke children, declare an emergency, create moral pressures, and channel the resulting fear toward acceptance and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Citing the newly published <a href="https://www.unicef.org/reports/childrens-climate-risk-report-2026">Children&#8217;s Climate Risk Report 2026</a>, issued by the United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF), the Leo Vatican warned that the <em>&#8220;health, education, and survival&#8221; </em>of 1.1.billion children are threatened by the overlapping presence of three of the extreme events&#8212;<a href="https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2017/01/24/population-controllers-to-pontificate-at-the-vatican/">shades of Paul Ehrlich&#8217;s faux eco alarmism</a> of population control, who, nevertheless, <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2017/03/09/infamous-population-control-activist-paul-ehrlich-speaks-at-vatican-symposium/">spoke as an expert twice at the Francis Vatican. </a></p><p>That&#8217;s how the <em>Sustainable Synodal Echo Chamber </em>operates. </p><p>The Vatican&#8217;s accelerated Synodal timetable raises a troubling question: why must everything be accomplished by 2030? The answer is hiding in plain sight. The Synod&#8217;s priorities&#8212;human fraternity, climate action, social inclusion, the common good&#8212;read like an ecclesiastical adaptation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. </p><p>The timelines converge. </p><p>The language converges. </p><p>The objectives converge. </p><p>One supplies the machinery of global governance; the other supplies its moral and spiritual imprimatur. By 2030, the destination appears to be the same.</p><p><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/september/documents/papa-francesco_20150925_onu-visita.html">In his address to the UN General Assembly in 2015, </a> Francis called the adoption of the 2030 Agenda: </p><blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;an important sign of hope. This Agenda embodies the collective aspiration for a world in which the inherent, God-given dignity of every single human being is upheld, through the overarching goal of eradicating poverty and hunger in all their forms and dimensions.&#8221;</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>The purported Vicar of Christ bestows upon the UN Sustainable Development Goals  an aura of moral authority and spiritual significance rarely granted to a UN policy framework. </p><h4 style="text-align: center;">The Great Spiritual Reset timed with Agenda 2030</h4><p><a href="https://infovaticana.com/en/2026/05/21/the-vatican-accelerates-the-implementation-of-the-synod-with-new-assemblies-until-2028/">Synodal Inc. is racing toward </a>the Agenda 2030 goal line, determined to deliver the <em>Great Spiritual Reset o</em>n schedule with the same bureaucratic zeal and missionary fervor before the deadline expires at the United Nations. </p><p>The uncomfortable truth is that the Synod on Synodality functions as the ecclesiastical companion to the UN SDGs, supplying the moral imperative for the Great Reset&#8217;s remaking of society, marching in lockstep with the Agenda 2030, through moral relativism, environmental ideology, and the steady dissolution of dogma into perpetual dialogue.  </p><p>Catholics, the starting gun has been fired, the pace has quickened and the 2030 finish line is rapidly approaching.  Before the crowd is stampeded across it, now is the time to blow the whistle, expose the false start and demand to know who designed the course, set the timetable and who is waiting at the finish line?</p><p><strong>***Updated: Within minutes of posting this article on the UN/Vatican 2030 Alliance, the Vatican just dropped the following <a href="https://infovaticana.com/en/2026/06/16/pope-leo-xiv-intervenes-at-the-vienna-climate-summit-and-calls-for-a-new-global-economic-model/">video presentation by Leo</a>, addressing <span data-color="rgb(34, 34, 34)" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> the tenth edition of the </span></strong><em><strong>Austrian World Summit</strong></em><strong>,<span data-color="rgb(34, 34, 34)" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> the international summit on sustainability and climate change held in Vienna. In his address, Leo defended the need to promote a &#8220;just transition&#8221; toward economic models oriented to the common good, called for greater financial support for the poorest countries, and urged stronger international cooperation to address environmental challenges, and </span>cited his address to the <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/messages/pont-messages/2025/documents/20251107-messaggio-cop30.html">UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP30, on November 7, 2025. </a></strong></p><p><strong>The race is on.</strong></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scoring Goals for Agenda 2030: Leo's June Prayer Intention and the UN Playbook]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Great Spiritual Synodal Reset replaces the Sacred Heart for the heart of UN Sustainable Goals.]]></description><link>https://lizyore.substack.com/p/scoring-goals-for-agenda-2030-leos</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lizyore.substack.com/p/scoring-goals-for-agenda-2030-leos</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Yore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:00:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SDIo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40f6164b-b3c8-4f5c-943f-2385bbe4b641_832x1248.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SDIo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F40f6164b-b3c8-4f5c-943f-2385bbe4b641_832x1248.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SDIo!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, 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10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>During the 12th and 13th centuries, the Catholic Church, developed a profound devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Catholics nurtured a prayer life focused on the compassionate heart of Jesus Christ. This enduring and cherished dedication was embedded formally into the liturgical calendar in the month of June which was dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  In its ultimate wisdom, the Catholic Church set aside the month of June for the Catholic faithful to reflect on, celebrate and honor the love and merciful heart of Jesus Christ.  </p><p>To emphasize the importance of this devotion, in the 17th century, Jesus appeared to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque offering her His Heart and urging her to promote the devotion to the Sacred Heart to the world desperate for forgiveness and mercy.   His words to St. Margaret Mary resonate especially now in a world torn by secularism, war, and nihilism:</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;My Divine Heart is so inflamed with love for men, and for you in particular that, being unable any longer to contain within itself the flames of its burning Charity, it must spread them broad by your means, and manifest itself to them (mankind) in order to enrich them with the precious graces of sanctification and salvation necessary to withdraw them from the abyss of perdition.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p>Ironically, the previous Pope Leo XIII was deeply dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He diligently promoted the Sacred Heart devotion throughout his papacy and even issued a magnificent encyclical,  <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_25051899_annum-sacrum.html">Annum Sacrum </a>in 1899, consecrating the entire world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. </p><p>Along comes the latest, Leo, the XIV, in his Vatican June Prayer intention offers an invitation for Catholics to pray <em><strong>'for the values of sports,' that all sport may promote peace, fraternity and communion. </strong> What&#8217;s going on? </em>Is this the new Synodal Gospel of FIFA or the Super Bowl of Sustainability? </p><p>During a time of ongoing major wars, this inconsequential prayer intention seems detached from reality-if only the world had better sportsmanship, war would end. So not only is Leo silent about the June dedication to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, but he inanely invokes prayers for sports with promises of <em>peace, fraternity and communion. </em>Pay attention! Sports will guarantee the peaceful, fraternal and inclusive new age synodal sustainable goals of utopia on earth. </p><p><a href="http://June Prayer Intention">Listen to the Vatican June Prayer Intention.</a></p><p>Is it now <em>unsustainable</em> in the Catholic Church to believe that Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace is the answer to the world&#8217;s crises?  Is the month of June now relegated to oblivion on the Vatican liturgical calendar for the World Cup, Wimbeldon and the World Series?</p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eZdU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7a902cd-3072-4268-ae60-01deb2129776_320x180.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eZdU!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7a902cd-3072-4268-ae60-01deb2129776_320x180.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eZdU!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_848, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7a902cd-3072-4268-ae60-01deb2129776_320x180.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eZdU!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7a902cd-3072-4268-ae60-01deb2129776_320x180.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eZdU!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7a902cd-3072-4268-ae60-01deb2129776_320x180.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eZdU!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7a902cd-3072-4268-ae60-01deb2129776_320x180.jpeg" width="320" height="180" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c7a902cd-3072-4268-ae60-01deb2129776_320x180.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:180,&quot;width&quot;:320,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:15728,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://lizyore.substack.com/i/201155378?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7a902cd-3072-4268-ae60-01deb2129776_320x180.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eZdU!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7a902cd-3072-4268-ae60-01deb2129776_320x180.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eZdU!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_848, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7a902cd-3072-4268-ae60-01deb2129776_320x180.jpeg 848w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eZdU!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_1272, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7a902cd-3072-4268-ae60-01deb2129776_320x180.jpeg 1272w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eZdU!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc7a902cd-3072-4268-ae60-01deb2129776_320x180.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Sustainable FIFA Gospel </strong></h4><p>During the last 14 years, the Vatican&#8217;s priorities seem increasingly aligned with global UN talking points rather than the urgent suffering of persecuted Christians. Those Vatican themes are none other than the UN Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030, which were promoted by the Holy See and ratified on September 25, 2015, despite being flush with immoral and diabolical goals, contrary to Catholicism. </p><p>Why did Leo choose sports as a monthly intention?  This shouldn&#8217;t surprise anyone. <strong>Sports </strong>play a vital role in the UN Sustainable 17 Goals. In fact, sports are deployed as a key component of sustainability embedded in <a href="https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/role-sport-achieving-sustainable-development-goals">The UN&#8217;s Sustainable Goals</a>, which underscore the importance of sports as an integral component of sustainability. <strong>The value of sports is touted and promoted in </strong><em><strong>6 of the 17 UN Sustainable Goals.</strong></em></p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Sport has proven to be a cost-effective and flexible tool for promoting peace and development objectives. Since the inception of the MDGs in 2000, sport has played a vital role in enhancing each of the eight Goals, a fact that has been recognized in numerous resolutions of the General Assembly. In resolution 70/1, entitled <a href="https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/role-sport-achieving-sustainable-development-goals">&#8220;Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development&#8221;</a>, adopted in 2015, endorses sport&#8217;s role in advancing social progress is further acknowledged:</em></p><p><em><strong>Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages</strong>. Such initiatives raise awareness about the plight of young refugees and are fully in harmony with the SDGs, particularly with regard to health </em></p><p><em><strong>Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning</strong>.</em></p><p><em><strong>Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls</strong>. Through sport and physical activity, women and girls can be empowered and benefit from the positive impact that sport has on health and psychosocial conditions.</em></p><p><em><strong>Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable</strong>. Sports play a valuable role</em></p><p><em><strong>Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies</strong>.</em></p><p><em><strong>Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development</strong>.</em></p></blockquote><p>The <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld">2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development</a> elevates sports as a key component of sustainable development, recognizing the growing contribution of sport to the realization of development of peace in its promotion of tolerance and respect. According to the UN Agenda 2030, sports contribute immensely to the Sustainable Development Goals in various ways.</p><p>This was emphasized in paragraph #<a href="https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda">37 of the Political Declaration contained in resolution 70/1 entitled &#8220;Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development&#8221;, </a>where the UN Member States at the highest level recognized that </p><blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;sport is also an important enabler of sustainable development&#8221; and valued &#8220;the growing contribution of sport to the realization of development and peace in its promotion of tolerance and respect and the contributions it makes to the empowerment of women and of young people, individuals and communities as well as to health, education and social inclusion objectives.&#8221;</strong></p></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.sdgfund.org/un-presents-new-toolkit-action-how-sports-can-contribute-achieve-sdgs">The UN</a> even fashioned a toolkit on maintaining SDGs in promoting sports:</p><blockquote><p><em>After highlighting the United Nations resolutions on sports and development and how these resolutions have become integral in shaping major sports events such as the Olympics, the World Cup and other major sports tournaments across the world, the toolkit offers a series of <strong>recommendations to leverage the potential of sports to achieve the SDG</strong>s.</em></p></blockquote><p>Of all the complex and deadly crises around the world, Leo focuses his prayer intention on sports and athletics as the solution to war, terrorism and genocide. It&#8217;s laughable, if it weren&#8217;t so naive, superficial and unserious. </p><p>He demonstrates that he is the compliant manservant of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. His <em>synodal mission </em>is to solidify the alliance between the UN Global Agenda 2030 and its partner, the Synodal Church. This is done in big ways and small, obvious, and not so obvious; prayer intentions provide a facile vehicle. </p><p>So it&#8217;s not surprising,  that this past month,  along comes <a href="https://thecatholicherald.com/article/bishops-describes-atheist-anthem-as-the-most-beautiful-song-in-the-world">Bishop Antonio Staglian&#242;, President of the Pontifical Academy of Theology </a>who describes &#8220;<em>Imagine&#8221; </em>John Lennon&#8217;s 1971 iconic hymn as the &#8220;most beautiful song in the world.&#8221; The <em>Imagine</em> lyrics call for a utopian world with <em>&#8220;no heaven,</em>&#8221; <em>&#8220;no hell&#8221;</em> and <em>&#8220;no religion.&#8221;</em>  John Lennon seemed to be clued in to the plans of the global elites. <em>Imagine</em> is best characterized as the global anthem for the UN Sustainable Development Goals:</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people sharing all the world.&#8221; </em></p></blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Imagine no possessions&#8221; </em>sounds eerily like the Great Reset Davos mastermind, <a href="https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=YOU+WILL+OWN+NOTHNG&amp;mid=95A7CDC0486EDDB1313D95A7CDC0486EDDB1313D&amp;FORM=VIRE&amp;ajaxhist=0&amp;ajaxserp=0">Klaus Schwab&#8217;s </a><em><a href="https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=YOU+WILL+OWN+NOTHNG&amp;mid=95A7CDC0486EDDB1313D95A7CDC0486EDDB1313D&amp;FORM=VIRE&amp;ajaxhist=0&amp;ajaxserp=0">&#8220;you will own nothing and be happy.&#8221;</a> </em></p><p>Imagine, if you can, a Catholic Pope, who invokes the merciful Heart of Jesus Christ to a world torn by war and suffering. Imagine, if you can, a Catholic Pope who promotes the Ten Commandments, and not the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. Imagine if you can, a Catholic Pope who rejects the godless Agenda 2030, and prays to the Blessed Mother, the Co-Redemptrix, who cooperated with Jesus Christ in the redemption of humanity. </p><p>It&#8217;s easy if you try&#8212;Just pray to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[BIG SUR on the TIBER]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Synod on Synodality looms as a watershed moment in the radical transformation of the Catholic Church into a globalized religion, stripped of dogma and Catholic identity.]]></description><link>https://lizyore.substack.com/p/big-sur-on-the-tiber</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lizyore.substack.com/p/big-sur-on-the-tiber</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Yore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:15:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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consciousness</strong>.&#8221; <strong>So I got that goin&#8217; for me, which is nice.&#8221; </strong></em></h4><p style="text-align: center;">                                                        ~Bill Murray, Caddyshack</p></blockquote><p>This is the dawning of the New Age of Aquarius and Leo, where consciousness, not truth, is the end goal for the listening and dialoguing <em>enlightened ones.</em> <a href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/assembly/bookdocuments/The-synodal-journey-Documents-EN.pdf">The synodal documents </a>proudly proclaim this <em>&#8220;new consciousness.&#8221;</em></p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The understanding of the Synodal Church as one that walks together with everyone calls for the formation of the clergy and the laity on this new <strong>consciousness.</strong>&#8221; </em></p></blockquote><p>Not convinced? Check out this Deepak doozy from the synodal swamis:</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Listening is not only listening to people. It involves listening to the local culture with the dynamics of co-responsibility and with the <strong>consciousness </strong>that culture is dynamic and evolving.&#8221; </em></p></blockquote><p>And inhale this mindfulness mantra from among the synodal chants: </p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The synodal documents expanded our <strong>consciousness </strong>about the realities of life in the Church in different places in the world. Also bringing our attention back to our own situation in the local Churches and to see the commonalities we all share.&#8221; <a href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/assembly/bookdocuments/The-synodal-journey-Documents-EN.pdf">~(Session XI Group 15).</a></em></p></blockquote><p>Now, with the recent release of the <a href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/process/implementation/10workinggroups/final-reports/sg9/SG-9_Final-Report.pdf">Synod Study Group #9 report,</a> the Leo Vatican, under the leadership of James Martin, S.J. has finally arrived at Woodstock&#8212;unveiling a new theology of genitalia, half a century after the  &#8216;69 <em>Summer of Love</em> packed up its tents. Peace out with your outdated Theology of the Body, brothers and sisters, and roll out the lavendar carpet for the shiny new synodal sexuality of &#8216;<em>inclusion&#8217;. </em>Somewhere along the synodal journey, <em>St. Francis</em> was toppled by the Castro District of <em> San Francisco</em>. And in his place now struts a glittering idol of rainbow heresy, blessing what God has always condemned. </p><h4 style="text-align: center;">A new world religion needs a new name</h4><p>Synodality! A masterstroke of branding: a term untethered from any settled meaning or tradition, expansive enough to accommodate virtually anything&#8212;and therefore capable of uniting everything. What a insidious invention&#8212; a word without a defined meaning and without a past, ideally crafted for a new world religion seeking a banner or <a href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/common/phases/continental-stage/dcs/Documento-Tappa-Continentale-EN.pdf">(inclusive tent</a>)&#8212;broad enough to gather all faiths within it. </p><h4 style="text-align: center;">A new world religion needs a new logo to replace the cross</h4><p>Synodality says everything and nothing at once&#8212;a term with neither the precision of doctrine nor the weight of history, yet elastic enough to serve as the umbrella or <em>&#8220;tent&#8221; </em>for a religion of <em>perpetual inclusion.</em> Enter, the new image for synodality: the TENT.  No more walls (except the Vatican&#8217;s), no more financial corruption (except the Vatican bank), no more predation (except at the Vatican), and an invasion of illegal immigrants (except at the Vatican). Time to retire the contentious and thorny crucifix of Jesus Christ with the hospitable tent-a much better fit for all the world&#8217;s religions. </p><p>What a perfect new age metaphor: the<em> tent. </em>How hip of the synodal gurus! The ever enlarging tent serves precisely as the main image for the syncretic synodal documents. Catholicism steps out of its rigid dogma of Christ crucified and is transformed into a reformed and repackaged <em>&#8220;inclusive religion&#8221;</em>&#8212;a welcoming tent for all with promises to discard hurtful dogmas, rigid practices, and obsolete sacraments. As Bergoglio pronounced in the 2019 <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/travels/2019/outside/documents/papa-francesco_20190204_documento-fratellanza-umana.html">Abu Dhabi Declaration</a>; it advocates for global tolerance, mutual respect, and compassion, famously declaring that "the pluralism and the diversity of religions... are willed by God in His wisdom".  </p><p>Come one, come all,  to the rainbow tent of perpetual dialogue, where discernment is optional, doctrine is negotiable, and the patron saint of interfaith dialogue, the disgraced serial sexual predator Theodore McCarrick passed around the peace pipe of no just war and tolerance for all religions, while he practiced <em>synodal lgbtqia++ inclusion </em>by victimizing seminarians and young boys . </p><p></p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/common/phases/continental-stage/dcs/Documento-Tappa-Continentale-EN.pdf">Key Components of the &#8220;Tent&#8221; Metaphor:</a> (From the Synodal Documents)</strong></em></p><ul><li><p><em><strong>Radical Hospitality:</strong> The tent symbolizes a Church without walls, (except at the Vatican) called to welcome those on the margins and expand its capacity to listen. </em></p></li><li><p><em><strong>Structure and Support:</strong> In the scriptural imagery, the tent requires pegs to be firm and ropes to be lengthened. This represents keeping the faith secure while expanding the community&#8217;s reach. (Pitch your tent in synodal sludge, Plebs). </em></p></li><li><p><em><strong>Communion, Participation, Mission:</strong> The tent is envisioned as a communal, mobile space where all the baptized participate and share responsibility for the Church&#8217;s mission. [<a href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/common/phases/continental-stage/dcs/Documento-Tappa-Continentale-EN.pdf">1</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbdqhtTUUrs&amp;t=23">2</a>, <a href="https://www.vermontcatholic.org/vermont/continental-stage-of-the-synod-enlarge-the-space-of-your-tent-is-542/">3</a>]</em></p></li></ul></blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;Radical Hospitality, Community, Participation and Mission&#8221;-</strong>sounds like a Hilton Hotel Corporate Strategic Plan and Mission Statement for its employees. </em>The synodal tenets of <em>hospitality</em> and <em>community </em>are such an embarrassingly laughable farce,  if it weren&#8217;t such a vicious slap in the face to the towering brilliance of 2000 years of saints, doctors, and martyrs who built, fought, and died for the Church.  The faith of Aquinas, Athanasius, and Ambrose is folded up and packed away, replaced by a &#8220;<em>communal mobile space&#8221;, i</em>n which truth yields to process, doctrine to dialogue and the Church journeys toward irrelevance <em>of &#8220;radical hospitality&#8221;.  </em></p><p>What in the name of all that is holy is in the Vatican water supply these days? LSD laced rainbow kool-aid mixed with new age incense? This psychobabble is ripped straight from a cheap, sentimental New Age meditation manual. How stupid do they think the faithful are? This liturgical lullaby is designed to drug Catholics into sleepy complacency, dim the lights and let them pilfer the Faith right out from under us.  </p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><em>What is the end game here with the Synodal PsyOp?</em></h4><p>The elites and their Vatican allies are engaging in the rollout of the new world religion, which, by necessity,  demands the synthesis of all religions.  Syncretism is the transformation model underway.</p><blockquote><p><strong>&#8216;The reality is that the Elite are seeking to influence the world&#8217;s religions, and not just Christianity, but all of them, to try and make them converge and form a New world Religion-a syncretic religion with their State authority in the center of it.&#8221;</strong></p></blockquote><p>As the world&#8217;s largest religion, the Catholic Church is foremost in the global sights of the elite:</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The strategy is to have Catholicism as the ecumenical center for Christianity, and try to make other denominations join forces with them. For interfaithism, (ecumenism) is the strategy to syncretise them into the New World religion with Catholicism again at the center with the Pope at the top. {M}ulti-faithism is the direction the Catholic Church is going in.&#8221; </em><strong>-</strong>James Musker, <em>The New World Religion and the Beliefs of the Elite.&#8221; </em></p></blockquote><h4 style="text-align: center;">Francis laid the foundations stones; Leo is clearing the remaining rubble.</h4><p>In his 13 years, Francis did the heavy lifting of aligning the Vatican with the priorities and institutions of the global elite, particularly through environmentalism, interfaith dialogue, migration and a new emphasis on global governance. In doing so, he opened the Church to the influence of powerful secular elites and aligned with their agendas. He partnered with the United Nations, the Rothschilds, Soros, the CCP, World Health Organization, the Bilderberg Meeting, and the World Economic Forum. Structurally, he used the moral voice of the Catholic Church to embrace the UN Green agenda, ratify the Paris Climate Treaty, supported syncretism in the Abu Dhabi Declaration,  elevated paganism in the Pachamama ritual and endorsed and ratified the radical population control UN Sustainable Development Goals and globalist Agenda 2030. He wrote Laudato Si, an environmental encyclical creating a new eco sin, and began the internal doctrinal process to change Church dogma on marriage and the eucharist with Amoris Laetitia and homosexual blessings and LGBTQia++inclusion with Fiducia Supplicans.  </p><p>Leo appears focused on removing the internal obstacles by marginalizing traditional centers of resistance, such as the TLM, and SSPX,  conservative bishops, and other conservative contemplative orders. While keeping the Bergoglioans close by, he is further imposing radicalizing personnel changes with new bishop appointments. Viewed through this lens, the Synodal process functions as the mechanism of both deconstruction and reconstruction: dismantling inherited structures of doctrine, identity and authority while simultaneously refashioning the Church into the syncretic institution aligned with the anticipated one world religion.</p><h4 style="text-align: center;">The Synodal Blueprint</h4><p>This is the architecture of the Synodal revolution: an ongoing campaign of ecclesial transformation aimed at bringing the Church into alignment with UN Agenda 2030. The vehicle is a permanent bureaucracy of synodal study and working groups, producing a continuous stream of recommendations destined for magisterial inclusion. Those recommendations will be embedded into doctrine during the synodal process. What emerges is not the transmission of the faith, but the manufacture of innovations by hand selected committees. It is governance by process, theology by committee, and transformation without end.  </p><p>The new theology mirrors the global elite agenda: create new ecological sins, banish old sexual sins, promote globalism and reject national sovereignty, silence the faithful, and elevate the dissenters, excommunicate the devoted and anoint the apostates . </p><p>As Agenda 2030 looms ominously on the horizon, the Vatican&#8217;s synodal machinery is revving up, hell-bent on meeting the globalist goals the Vatican has already pledged to advance. Time is running out. The Synodal Syndicate is locked and loaded, operating on all cylinders-unimpeded, relentless, and firing off a steady barrage of documents drained of any recognizable Catholic content.  </p><p>But hear this: nothing is inevitable. Yet, the enemy is advancing quickly, as seen by the progress of the New World Order elites:</p><blockquote><p>The only way to have a New World Order is to totally eliminate the old. Only then can a new structure, a new way of thinking be introduced. The tenets of the Elite Illuminati are summarized in the following six points:</p><ol><li><p>Abolition of monarchies and all ordered governemnt;</p></li><li><p>Abolition of private property and inheritance;</p></li><li><p>Abolition of patriotism and nationalism;</p></li><li><p>Abolition of family life and the institution of marriage;</p></li><li><p>Communal education of children;</p></li><li><p>Abolition of all religion.</p><p><em>~ Hope of the Wicked, Master Plan to Rule the World.</em> Ted Flynn</p></li></ol></blockquote><p>What is demanded of faithful Catholics now is not passive lamentation, but fierce, unyielding resistance to the wicked master plan to rule the world. The only question left is: </p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>What does that resistance look like? </strong></h4><p><strong>Man the spiritual battle stations</strong></p><ol><li><p><strong>Double down and intensify your prayer life.</strong> Organize  daily rosary groups, at home and at church, demand Eucharistic Adoration in your parish church, go to confession and Sunday Mass. Support your good priests and nuns who are in the front lines of this battle.</p></li><li><p><strong>Learn the lessons of Vatican II:</strong> Catholics were clueless and caught totally blindsided by the radical innovations of the Vatican Council. There was no internet, social media, or daily commentary of the events during the Council. It took 50 years to learn that the diabolical mastermind behind the liturgical wreckage was a lying, conniving Freemason, Anibale Bugnini.  Catholicism is still reeling from the masonic led damage to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.  Vigilance is our best weapon. Ignorance is no excuse. </p></li><li><p><strong>Drop the Scales from your Eyes.</strong> Beloved faithful&#8212;watch the Vatican like a hawk circling its prey! Devour the true Faith with unrelenting fervor. Study it, live it, defend it with every ounce of your mind and soul. And track every single document, every sly pronouncement, every press release, every promotion, and every staged photo op that slithers out of the Apostolic Palace. Leave nothing to chance or unexamined. </p></li></ol><p>Let no shadow go unchallenged. Because in these dark days, the wolves prowl not in the wilderness, but within the sheepfold. Your knowledge is your sword. Stand guard for the innocent. As parents watch over their family-the domestic church, the same vigilance is required for Holy Mother Church. Protect Her at all costs-even if it means going underground to preserve the faith of our ancestors. </p><p></p><p></p><p>*Even the Grammarly spell check underlines <em>&#8220;synodality&#8221;</em> indicating that &#8220;<em>no such word exists&#8221;.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembering Cardinal Pell's "Toxic Nightmare" ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Synodal Sludge: Three years later and Pell is vindicated by his brutal takedown of the Synod on Synodality. Nothing has changed.]]></description><link>https://lizyore.substack.com/p/remembering-cardinal-pells-toxic</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lizyore.substack.com/p/remembering-cardinal-pells-toxic</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Yore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 14:34:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Vdsx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35ed6d56-6b01-4c48-93f5-4587357d759b_1402x1122.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Vdsx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35ed6d56-6b01-4c48-93f5-4587357d759b_1402x1122.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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George Pell, renowned for his toughness, blunt candor, and fearless demeanor&#8212;qualities forged, in part, during his days as a hard-charging Australian Rules ruckman. Pell was a battle-scarred athlete, known for his savage takedowns, and the most formidable fighter in the entire College of Cardinals. His intellect and instincts were every bit as lethal as his physical prowess,  with his verbal blows carrying the same crushing ferocity as his physical ones. </p><p>Whether Cardinal Pell was ruthlessly exposing the cynical manipulation and power grabs in the Synodal meetings or fearlessly digging into the financial sewer of corruption at the Vatican Bank, he didn&#8217;t flinch. </p><p>Almost immediately in the synodal process, Cardinal Pell spotted the slick manipulation and backroom dealing in the Synodal swamp. With the fearlessness of a ruckman, he called out the Synodal fouls, the penalties and the blatant infractions throughout the early process.</p><p>Six years into the Synod, the machinery is now gathering dangerous momentum, making Pell&#8217;s admonitions and warnings more prophetic, timely and urgent than ever. His warnings must be revisited as the Synod further <em>journeys </em>into the muck and quicksand of modernism. <a href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/process/implementation/10workinggroups/final-reports/sg9/SG-9_Final-Report.pdf">See Synodal Study Group #9</a></p><p>As prelate, George Pell stood at the center of the Bergoglio papacy, overshadowing  his brother cardinals, contesting and challenging the perfidious plans and pronouncements of Francis and his minions.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZoPK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F273f383b-82bd-4bc1-b514-3a9ed6eb35c8_1401x1123.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZoPK!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, 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his sneaky synod relators? Vatican journalist Edward Pentin detailed the synodal gamesmanship in his blockbuster expos&#233;, <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rigging-Vatican-Synod-Investigation-Extraordinary-ebook/dp/B014QC51DI/ref=sr_1_1?crid=HD0QOVHTJ241&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.HQhQX6s7XjNiUpizoOY7J5HYkC35nLzxIG71fL9t57ew6IXzzi0WFxn7V3X0-Nunu0XU_pb5t9-EfgpAlLZR_bBXePn8w59FFmD1khZkQ3KbiwacbEAMjHpULpsLjQ7JTTZl1J1gVCkjR7_YlRXvWA.haQ7SfHNR7f8k5eeTCtLuWhfm3mBbwTjW805WI6yeO8&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=rigging+the+synod&amp;qid=1779913526&amp;sprefix=rigging+the+synod%2Caps%2C138&amp;sr=8-1">Rigging of a Vatican Synod</a>? </em>Pell excoriated the Bergoglians for their underhanded synodal tactics &#8212;changing the rules midstream, manipulating outcomes through   misrepresentations, and steering the process into outright doctrinal drift. </p><p>Early on, Pell sensed that the Bergoglio Vatican posed a clear and present danger to the Catholic faith as it marched headlong toward modernism under the guise of synodality.</p><p>Pell didn&#8217;t stop there. He organized his fellow Cardinals to protest the conniving machinations of the ongoing Synod on Synodality. He drafted and personally delivered to Bergoglio a <strong> <a href="http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1351154bdc4.html?eng=y">2015 letter from 13 Cardinals</a> </strong>denouncing the tactics and manipulative agenda of the <em>Synod on the Family</em>.</p><p>The earliest objections voiced in the Cardinals letter portend a rigged and manipulated process from the very start and it continues to this day:</p><h4><strong>Complaint 1: How ironic! No Dialogue with the Synodal Fathers</strong></h4><blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;The new synodal procedures will be seen in some quarters as lacking openness and genuine collegiality. In the past, the process of offering propositions and voting on them served the valuable purpose of taking the measure of the synod fathers&#8217; minds.&#8221;</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>Pell and the Cardinals were warning that the Synodal rules <strong>squelched debate and transparency </strong>and did not accurately reflect the intent or ongoing discussions during the Synod among the synod participants.</p><blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;The absence of propositions and their related discussions and voting seems to discourage open debate and to confine discussion to small groups; thus it seems urgent to us that the crafting of propositions to be voted on by the entire synod should be restored.&#8221;</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>Pell shrewdly read the synodal room and saw that the foundational premises of the Synod on Synodality are rigged to create a certain desired outcome. </p><h4>Complaint #2 Rubber Stamping Preordained Conclusions:Rigged Voting</h4><blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;Voting on a final document comes too late in the process for a full review and serious adjustment of the text.&#8221;</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>Pell and the Cardinals saw the handwriting on the wall. This synodal process was being manipulated and the results manufactured. Bergoglio and his synodal minions created a rubbed stamp process where deliberation is largely performative because meaningful scrutiny, amendments,  or opposition are all structurally impossible once the final text is presented. The Cardinals knew that the synodal process is engineered to force consent rather than foster genuine debate, relying on procedural compression, managed outcomes, and fait accompli results.</p><h4>Complaint #3-Stacking the Deck-Personnel is Policy</h4><blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;Additionally, the lack of input by the synod fathers in the composition of the drafting committee has created considerable unease. Members have been appointed, not elected, without consultation. Likewise, anyone drafting anything at the level of the small circles should be elected, not appointed.&#8221;</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>In true Argentine Peronist fashion, Bergoglio stacked the deck with his ideological allies without any consultation with the College of Cardinals, the consultative body of the papacy. The Synodal scriveners were not subject to the scrutiny of the cardinals and were basically freelancers, writing at the whim of Bergoglio and the synodal leadership. Later on in the synodal process, conservatives were not invited and replaced by radical laity and non Catholics.</p><h4>Complaint #4-The rules are rigged against traditionalists</h4><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;In turn, these things have created a concern that the new procedures are not true to the traditional spirit and purpose of a synod. It is unclear why these procedural changes are necessary. <strong>A number of fathers feel the new process seems designed to facilitate predetermined results on important disputed questions.&#8221;</strong></em></p></blockquote><h4>Complaint #5- A clandestine agenda is unfolding beneath the language of &#8220;pastoral care.&#8221;</h4><p>The Cardinals recognized that a calculated campaign was underway to transform and modernize dogma under the cover of compassion and inclusivity. </p><blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;Finally and perhaps most urgently, various fathers have expressed concern that a synod designed to address a vital pastoral matter &#8211; reinforcing the dignity of marriage and family &#8211; may become dominated by the theological/doctrinal issue of Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried.&#8221;</strong></em></p></blockquote><h4>The Final Prophetic Warning: The Protestantization of Catholicism</h4><blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;If so, this will inevitably raise even more fundamental issues about how the Church, going forward, should interpret and apply the Word of God, her doctrines and her disciplines to changes in culture. The collapse of liberal Protestant churches in the modern era, accelerated by their abandonment of key elements of Christian belief and practice in the name of pastoral adaptation, warrants great caution in our own synodal discussions.&#8221;</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>Pell, as the loyal son and prince of the Church still had unfinished business with Bergoglio and his synodal syndicate.</p><h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Pell&#8217;s </strong><em><strong>2020</strong></em><strong> Demos Denunciation of Synodality</strong></h3><p>In 2020, now fully aware of the depravity of the Bergoglians, Cardinal Pell penned an anonymous letter sent to the entire College of Cardinals under the pseudonym, <strong><a href="https://www.ncregister.com/blog/cardinal-pell-and-the-demos-memorandum">&#8220;Demos&#8221;</a>, </strong>further condemning the Synodal/Bergoglio apostasy and heresy. He brutally excoriated the synodal project and the Bergoglioan agenda.</p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Pell warns Bergoglio is </strong><em><strong>&#8220;A Disaster-A Catastrophe&#8221;</strong></em></h4><p>~<strong> The Bergoglio pontificate </strong><em><strong>&#8220;is a disaster in many or most respects; a catastrophe.&#8221; </strong></em>Pell asserts that the role of the Successor of Peter is to be a unifier, preserve the apostolic tradition and uphold the Church&#8217;s teaching.  Without any hesitation, Pell knew that Bergoglio was intentionally undermining this sacred duty.</p><h4>~<strong>Confusion Reigns under Francis. &#8216;Roma loquitur. Confusio augetur&#8217;&#8221; (Rome has spoken; confusion grows). </strong></h4><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>~Silence in the Face of Evil-</strong></h4><p>&#8220;Demos&#8221; then lists the times that Bergoglio was silent in the face of evils in the Church, including in response to the current German Synodal Way that is promoting homosexuality and women priests, and what the author describes as &#8220;explicitly heretical&#8221; statements by Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, the relator general of the global Synod on Synodality, rejecting the Church&#8217;s teaching on sexuality. The memorandum calls on the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to formally correct Cardinal Hollerich. Otherwise, silence by the DDF imputes acceptance.</p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>~Harassment and Persecution of Traditionalists. </strong></h4><p>Pell noted that &#8220;the silence is emphasized, when contrasted with the active persecution of the Traditionalists and contemplative convents&#8221; &#8212; a reference to severe restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass issued in 2021, and harsh regulations imposed on women contemplative religious orders. </p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>~No Longer a Christo-centric Church. </strong></h4><p>Pell decried that the <em>&#8220;the Christo-centric legacy of St. John Paul II in faith and morals is under systemic attack,&#8221; </em>and the<em> &#8220;confusion about the importance of a strict monotheism&#8221;</em> and criticizing a move towards <em>&#8220;not quite pantheism&#8221; but &#8220;a Hindu panentheism variant.&#8221; </em>Cardinal Pell was repelled and enraged over the veneration of the Pachamama statues in the Vatican during the Amazon Synod of 2019, calling it<strong> &#8220;idolatrous.&#8221;</strong> </p><p><strong>The 2020 memorandum calls for the situation of traditional Catholics to &#8220;be regularized,&#8221; for individual traditional Masses to be restarted in St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica, and adds that the Pope has &#8220;little support among seminarians and young priests and wide-spread disaffection exists in the Vatican Curia.&#8221; </strong></p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Pell&#8217;s Warning! Next Conclave: </strong>A Pope must restore Doctrinal Clarity</h4><p>Pell turns to the next conclave, a subject which the cardinal was especially concerned about as he saw it as vital to choose the right pope in order repair the damage he believed had been caused by Jorge Bergoglio. Pell  further warns that the next pope must stress the papal role of &#8220;<em>unity and doctrine.&#8221; He continues that the </em>next Pope <em>&#8220;must understand that the secret of Christian and Catholic vitality comes from fidelity to the teachings of Christ and Catholic practices,&#8221;</em> the text reads. <em>&#8220;It does not come from adapting to the world or from money.&#8221;</em></p><p>Cardinal Pell insisted to his fellow Cardinals that the next pope must restore doctrinal clarity, which he saw diluted by the Synod on Synodality . Similarly, his memorandum states: <em><strong>&#8220;The first tasks of the new pope will be to restore normality, restore doctrinal clarity in faith and morals, restore a proper respect for the law and ensure that the first criterion for the nomination of bishops is acceptance of the apostolic tradition.&#8221;</strong></em></p><h4 style="text-align: center;">Homosexuality Advocacy will cause a Rupture</h4><p>Pell also expressed outrage over the synods held under Pope Francis&#8217; leadership. He warned that they threaten to be a <em><strong>&#8220;new danger to world-wide Church unity.&#8221;</strong></em><strong> </strong> His memo asserts  that if <em><strong>&#8220;such heresy&#8221; of national or continental synods being given doctrinal authority isn&#8217;t corrected, the Church would end up &#8220;closer to an Anglican or Protestant model, than an Orthodox model.&#8221; </strong> </em>Pell urged that the next pope should <em>&#8220;remove and prevent such a threatening development,</em>&#8221; citing <em>&#8220;the morality of homosexual activity&#8221; a</em>s <em>&#8220;one such flash point&#8221; </em>that could provoke a rupture in the Church.</p><p><strong>Pell prophetically concludes by warning of schism but adds that most likely it will come from the right rather than the left.</strong> He also called for an apostolic <strong>visitation of the Society of Jesus which is in </strong><em><strong>&#8220;catastrophic moral decline&#8221;</strong></em><strong> and argued that its charism and contribution have been so important to the Church that it must not be allowed to </strong><em><strong>&#8220;pass away into history.&#8221;</strong></em></p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Cardinal Pell sounds the alarm from his grave</strong></h4><p>On January 10, 2023, after seemingly successful hip surgery, George Pell suddenly died. Suddenly and cruelly, death silenced the mighty voice of George Pell. Yet, Pell had the final say. He left behind a final posthumous message for the Catholic Church-a grave and prophetic exhortation about the synodal storm gathering over Rome and the man who will follow Bergoglio. </p><p>On January 11th, <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-catholic-church-must-free-itself-from-this-toxic-nightmare/">his final commentary</a> appeared posthumously in the U.K.&#8217;s Spectator magazine. The beleaguered prelate fired one final warning shot desperate to awaken Catholics. Pell spared no words. His final assessment of  the <strong>Synod on Synodality, described as a </strong><em><strong>&#8220;toxic nightmare&#8221; from which the Church &#8220;must free itself.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p>The battle weary cardinal reminded the faithful that the role of bishops are &#8220;successors of the apostles-the chief teacher in each diocese. Pell again warned that the Synod process is a mockery of this sacred duty and making  bishops <em><strong>&#8220;wall flowers or rubber stamps&#8221; </strong></em>of a confused bureaucratic process which inserts into the dialogue, <em><strong>&#8220;neo Marxist jargon about &#8220;exclusion, alienation  identity, marginalization, the voiceless, LGBTQ as well as the displacement of Christian notions of forgiveness, sin, sacrifice, healing, redemption.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p>And finally, from his grave, George Pell cautions the faithful about the synod&#8217;s  gamesmanship:  </p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Why the silence on the afterlife of reward or punishment, on the four last things; death and judgement, heaven and hell?&#8221; asked Cardinal Pell regarding the <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/news/working-document-for-synod-s-continental-stage-calls-for-reform-of-church-structures">content of the working document released last year by the Synod on Synodality</a>, highlighting that the synodal way has <strong>&#8220;downgraded the Transcendent.&#8221;</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>George Pell&#8217;s relentless warnings about the Synodal secret agenda and its insidious corrosion of the faith now read like an elegy for a Church battered by infiltration and doctrinal sabotage in the post-Benedict era. What he feared most was not confusion alone, but a managed unraveling-carried out under the soothing language of &#8220;dialogue,&#8221; &#8220;listening,&#8221; and &#8220;pastoral accompaniment.&#8221;  In his remaining years, this giant figure, this man of the Church expended every ounce of energy and courage to shake the faithful and his fellow cardinals out of their stupor.  </p><p><strong>The question now looms with terrifying urgency: can anyone still stop this runaway train before it hurtles over the cliff?  George Pell was proved right about it all. </strong></p><p>George Pell was described during his funeral eulogy as, <em>&#8220;a man of God and a man of the Church, who was characterized by a deep faith and great steadfastness of doctrine, which he always defended without hesitation and with courage, concerned only with being faithful to Christ.&#8221;</em></p><p>Is there another ruckman to replace him in the battlefield to save Holy Mother Church?</p><p>Are there any such men even left in the College of Cardinals? </p><p></p><h3></h3><p></p><h3></h3><p></p><p></p><h3></h3><h3></h3><h4></h4><h4></h4><p style="text-align: center;"><br>.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Synodal Ear of Listening Spaces]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the New Synodal ecclesiology, salvation is no longer understood through redemption from sin, but through the Sacred Ear--the culmination of a self affirming listening process.]]></description><link>https://lizyore.substack.com/p/the-synodal-ear-of-listening-spaces</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lizyore.substack.com/p/the-synodal-ear-of-listening-spaces</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Yore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 16:16:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7qX3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Facea3557-61ef-47db-9ff5-11700a519c01_1402x1122.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7qX3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Facea3557-61ef-47db-9ff5-11700a519c01_1402x1122.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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installed during the youth prayer vigil. Instead of confessionals, &#8220;listening centers&#8221; will be available for the youth to speak with lay pastoral workers posing as </strong><em><strong>&#8220;listening agents.&#8221; </strong></em></p><p><strong>This is not a bad joke. This is your New Synodal Church marketing plan brought to you by the Church of Francis and Leo.</strong></p><p><strong>It&#8217;s time for Catholics to read the writing on the Vatican wall. </strong></p><p><strong>The brutal reality of the </strong><em><strong>New Synodal Church</strong></em><strong> is gradually declaring the sacrament of confession pass&#233; and outmoded.  Madrid is not the first example of the sacrament of listening. In September 2025, listening centers were introduced in St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica to offer a </strong><em><strong>safe space</strong></em><strong> for Vatican tourists to dialogue. </strong></p><p><strong>This radical shift presents a subtle, but concerted strategy by the synodal fathers to dilute the sacraments in order to open up the Church in the name of </strong><em><strong>inclusion.</strong></em><strong> No one should be surprised. Since 2016, the clear footnoted directive in </strong><em><strong>Amoris Laetitia</strong></em><strong> implicitly contradicts divine revelation regarding the reception of Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist by divorced and civilly remarried individuals. </strong></p><p><strong>Buckle up.  <a href="https://www.synod.va/en/news/the-preparatory-document.html">The Preparatory Document </a>of the </strong><em><strong>Synod on Synodality </strong></em><strong>spilled the beans about the objectives and dynamism of the fruits of conversion &#8220;</strong><em><strong>which will progressively mature.&#8221; </strong></em><strong>In other words, the Synod chaos is just getting started.</strong></p><p><strong>&#8220;</strong><em><strong>Accrediting the Christian community as a credible subject and reliable partner in paths of social dialogue, healing, reconciliation, inclusion and participation, the reconstruction of democracy, the promotion of fraternity and social friendship; &#8226; regenerating relationships among members of Christian communities as well as between communities and other social groups, e.g., communities of believers of other denominations and religions, civil society organizations, popular movements, etc.&#8221; </strong></em></p><p><strong>The deconstruction dictate is spelled out in the <a href="https://www.synod.va/en/highlights/working-document-for-the-continental-stage.html">Synodal Working document of the Continental phase:</a></strong></p><blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;It is important to build a synodal institutional model as an ecclesial paradigm of deconstructing pyramidal power that privileges unipersonal managements. The only legitimate authority in the Church must be that of love and service, following the example of the Lord&#8221;</strong></em></p></blockquote><p><strong>The entire navel gazing compilation of Synodal Documents can be found <a href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/assembly/bookdocuments/The-synodal-journey-Documents-EN.pdf">here</a>.   Across the entire tranche of documents, there is not a single substantive invocation of </strong><em><strong>confession </strong></em><strong>or </strong><em><strong>contrition. </strong></em><strong>The omission is not accidental but strategic: a deliberate effort to dissolve the moral architecture of the Catholic faith itself.  Instead, the documents are inundated with the word LISTENING over 407 times. &#8220;Listening&#8221; is the Synodal Syndicate&#8217;s most preferred, most hallowed, and exalted dogma, which has been elevated to sacramental status. In the Leo Synod, remorse or sorrow for sins is relegated to the ash heap of rigidity and obsolescence. </strong></p><h4>The Synodal Church Bureaucracy parrots new age corporate speak</h4><p><strong>The term, </strong><em><strong>listening centers,</strong></em><strong> mimics bureaucracy lingo, managed by HR departments. One expects headphones, clipboards, and psychological intake forms, not repentance, absolution, and sanctifying grace. A sober reading of synodal documents leaves one with the impression that this agenda is very strategic and intentional in its vague and excessive sentimentalism. The goal is to supplant the Magisterium with an all knowing listening and inclusive bureaucracy, mixed with spiritual new age pretension with the goal of diluting the faith. </strong></p><p><strong>That is precisely why the terminology is so absurd and deeply disturbing. The Catholic Church once taught the language of sin, redemption, conversion, penance, and truth. Now it increasingly adopts the vocabulary of the managerial class or sociology department: accompaniment, dialogue, encounter, process, and listening. Corporate DEI workshops frequently prioritize &#8220;safe spaces&#8221; and &#8220;listening circles&#8221; over objective truth claims. The practical effect is to replace clarity with ambiguity and authority with group facilitation. </strong></p><p><strong>Historically, regimes and movements elevated &#8220;listening&#8221; as a political or ideological tool, especially with impressionable teens and young people.  Communist &#8220;self-criticism sessions&#8221; invited endless sharing and emotional disclosure under the guise of communal understanding and propaganda. Maoist </strong><em><strong>&#8220;speak bitterness&#8221; </strong></em><strong>campaigns encouraged people to publicly disclose grievances as a revolutionary process. Yet, it was set as a diabolical trap to expose vulnerabilities. Is this the synodal imitation of a </strong><em><strong>&#8220;Marxist Struggle Session&#8221; </strong></em><strong>where Catholic youth are indoctrinated into </strong><em><strong>SynodalSpeak</strong></em><strong> sprinkled with TLM bashing and homophobia gaslighting?</strong></p><p><strong>Lenin famously proposed:</strong></p><blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.&#8221;</strong></em></p></blockquote><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_a4U!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F44c13a37-3cce-4362-a2dc-204b0d1e1f01_1280x700.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_a4U!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, 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creepy idea is this?</strong></p><p><strong>What is the conceivable benefit to a young teen who visits a processing booth staffed by listening adults, unknown to the child? </strong></p><p><strong>More importantly,  lurking on the surface are legitimate safety concerns to minors and vulnerable young people who are encouraged to disclose intimate personal or emotional information to unfamiliar adults in random pastoral settings.  </strong></p><p><strong>What could go wrong?? Everything.</strong></p><p><strong>Apparently, the Catholic Church hasn&#8217;t learned its lesson, that sexual predators are like heat seeking missiles seeking out vulnerable children who gather in big venues, such as camps, mentoring ministries, and youth retreats. Imagine the hunting ground for child predators with a massive youth rally, like the Madrid event. </strong></p><p><strong>The core risks to youth are blatantly obvious. Young people do not clearly understand whether the interaction is pastoral, therapeutic, spiritual or simply, an informal conversation. Rapid disclosure of deeply personal experience can create psychological dependency or misplaced trust on an unknown, and </strong><em><strong>compassionately listening </strong></em><strong>adult stranger. Groomers always seek to know a potential victim&#8217;s vulnerabilities-the easier and quicker to exploit. </strong></p><p><strong>Grooming vulnerabilities abound in this scenario. Predators look to manipulate environments that encourage secrecy, intimacy, emotional disclosure and trust-building with vulnerable youth. Predators who target children often rely less on force and more on manipulation, secrecy and psychological conditioning. The Madrid event offers a unique opportunity for predators who will pose as someone trustworthy who &#8220;really listens&#8221; and understands.  The venue provides predators with a unique opportunity to give access to minors under the guise of a safe space. Predators are master manipulators of non judgmental listening, exploring feelings and building trust.  </strong></p><p><strong>Titles like, &#8220;listener,&#8221; or &#8220;facilitator,&#8221; or &#8220;accompanier,&#8221; obscure the nature of the training, vetting or responsibility a person actually possesses to interact with a youth who is just encountered. Even the institutional language like &#8220;safe space&#8221; can unintentionally lower a minor&#8217;s normal caution around strangers. It is unclear whether these </strong><em><strong>listening facilitators </strong></em><strong>are even bound by statutory confidentiality. </strong></p><p><strong>Are the synodal minders clueless, careless or carefree about the dangers? Why would the Madrid Archdiocese and Vatican organizers jeopardize vulnerable young teens to share their hopes, plans, pains and struggles with a complete stranger?   This is a recipe for disaster, bordering on gross negligence. </strong></p><p><strong>This event risks becoming a predator&#8217;s playground and a psychological minefield for vulnerable youth. Apparently, the Church has not learned its past lessons.  After decades of abuse scandals, billions paid out to abuse victims, the Leo Vatican should know better. </strong></p><p><strong>In every case, &#8220;listening&#8221; is presented as neutral and compassionate, but often becomes a mechanism for soft control, emotional management, or ideological conditioning. Endless listening,  without truth or judgment quickly evolves into a process with no terminus. One listens forever because one never arrives anywhere. That is what makes the contrast with sacramental confession so glaring. A priest is not a therapeutic &#8220;Listening Agent.&#8221; He acts in persona Christi to absolve sins. The confessional is ordered toward repentance and reconciliation with God, not emotional ventilation with a &#8220;trained&#8221; facilitator.</strong></p><p><strong>Young Catholics will apparently trade confessionals for ecclesiastical listening kiosks  by replacing </strong><em><strong>&#8216;Bless me Father, for I have sinned,&#8217; </strong></em><strong>with &#8216;</strong><em><strong>Tell us how that made you feel.</strong></em><strong>&#8217; The Catholic Church that once sent missionaries, martyrs, and confessors now deploys &#8216;Listening Agents&#8217; who dialogue and accompany to nowhere.  This is the unmasked face of the New Synodal Church: therapeutic, leaderless, morally unmoored, and perilously naive about the dangers it invites. It is a treacherous and diabolical development, and jeopardizes young souls in need of actual supernatural mercy- now replaced by a vacuous exercise of superfluous stagecraft. </strong></p><p><strong>We are watching the auto destruction of the sacramental nature of the Catholic Church by the Synodal Syndicate:  </strong></p><p>&#8216;<em><strong>Give it four years and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.&#8217;</strong></em></p><p></p><h5>Elizabeth Yore is an international child advocate attorney who has investigated and prosecuted predators both inside and out of the Church for over 30 years.</h5><h5></h5><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Synodal Word Salad-Playbook for the AntiChrist]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Synodal documents mimic Kamala Harris psychobabble-engineered to sound profound, while saying nothing trustworthy or principled.]]></description><link>https://lizyore.substack.com/p/synodal-word-salad-playbook-for-the</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lizyore.substack.com/p/synodal-word-salad-playbook-for-the</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Yore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 15:00:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!--jW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0cbd229f-ab82-404d-924e-e4e27cd9ed36_832x1248.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!--jW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0cbd229f-ab82-404d-924e-e4e27cd9ed36_832x1248.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Words are not only bombs and bullets&#8212;no, they&#8217;re little packages of sentiment, delicately designed to sway the mind.&#8221; </em>  ~Aldous Huxley</p></blockquote><p>Propaganda comes in all shapes and sizes;  words are exploited, events mischaracterized, fear mongering, guilt shaming, vague intonations, outright lies, diversions to distract&#8212;all deployed to obscure the truth of the agenda. Exhibit #1 is the <a href="https://www.synod.va/en.html">Synod on Synodality.</a></p><p>During the last presidential campaign, America&#8217;s nightly comedy program, <em><a href="https://www.mediaite.com/media/entertainment/daily-show-brutally-roasts-kamala-harris-word-salads-by-introducing-her-holistic-advisor-a-process-i-call-speaking-without-thinking/">The Daily Show</a></em><a href="https://www.mediaite.com/media/entertainment/daily-show-brutally-roasts-kamala-harris-word-salads-by-introducing-her-holistic-advisor-a-process-i-call-speaking-without-thinking/">  spoofed Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217; </a> bizarre habit of public speaking. Harris became the butt of jokes that every time she opened her mouth a nonsensical word salad poured out. The Daily Show jokingly introduced a skit with a Harris&#8217; <em>&#8220;holistic thought advisor,&#8221;</em> someone who promotes the art of &#8220;speaking without thinking.&#8221;  The comic who played Kamala&#8217;s &#8220;thought advisor&#8221; mimicked Harris&#8217; inane babble:</p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s not about the destination of the thought, it's about the journey and how many words you use to describe the journey.&#8221; </em></p></blockquote><p>Does that sound familiar, Catholics? It should. Since the 2021 Synod on Synodality rollout, the Vatican Synodal collaborators are saturating the synodal working documents with Kamala-like holistic language about <em>journeying, listening, discerning, and dialoguing.</em> (see below word search). </p><p><strong>Deciphering the intent of </strong><em><strong>SynodalSpeak </strong></em><strong>is as mind numbing as </strong><em><strong>KamalaSpeak word salad: </strong></em></p><p><em>~Both cloak ambiguity in therapeutic jargon, replacing clarity with psychobabble designed to disarm critical thinking. </em></p><p><em>~The endless &#8220;listening,&#8221; dialogue,&#8221; and &#8220;process&#8221; conceal the absence of any concrete purpose, while conditioning the listener to accept transformation without consent or truth.</em></p><p><em>~A managed revolution smuggled in under the guise of &#8220;compassion and inclusion.&#8221; </em></p><p><strong>This is the linguistic synodal subversion blueprint well underway at the Vatican.</strong></p><p>Examine just a few of countless examples of  <em>SynodalSpeak</em> from a Church that once proudly claimed theologians in the rigorous intellectual tradition of St. Thomas Aquinas. Today, the Vatican inundates the faithful with therapeutic Deepak Chopra sounding slogans-vague spiritual bromides, stripped of doctrinal clarity, moral seriousness and supernatural force. </p><p>Take deep breaths on this listening journey; and ignore the synodal wrecking crew.  </p><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;First and foremost, we believe it is important, to account for the journey we have undertaken, having sought to conduct it as a practice of synodal learning.&#8221; <strong>Synodal Study Group #9</strong></em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;We recall that the purpose of the Synod, and therefore of this consultation, is not to produce documents, but &#8220;to plant dreams, draw forth prophecies and visions, allow hope to flourish, inspire trust, bind up wounds, weave together relationships, awaken a dawn of hope, learn from one another and create a bright resourcefulness that will enlighten minds, warm hearts, give strength to our hands.&#8221;</em>  <strong>Preparatory Document</strong></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The conversion of the emotions, images and thoughts inhabiting our hearts proceeds together with the conversion of pastoral and missionary action.&#8221; <strong>Final Document (FD)</strong></em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The word &#8220;conversation&#8221; expresses more than mere dialogue: it interweaves thought and feeling, creating a shared vital space. That is why we can say that conversion is at play in conversation</em>.&#8221;<strong>(FD</strong>)</p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Synodality and integral ecology both take on the character of relationality and insist upon us nurturing what binds us together.&#8221; <strong>(</strong></em><strong>FD)</strong></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;To be a synodal Church, we are required to open ourselves to a genuine relational conversion that redirects each person&#8217;s priorities, and we must once again learn from the Gospel that attending to relationships is not merely a strategy or a tool for greater organisational effectiveness.</em>&#8221; <strong>(FD)</strong></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;It is necessary to start by adopting a synodal working method. Conversation in the Spirit, after appropriate adaptation, may constitute a reference point.&#8221; <strong>(FD)</strong></em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;A synodal style allows local Churches to move at different paces. Differences in pace can be valued as an expression of legitimate diversity and as an opportunity for sharing gifts and mutual enrichment. This common horizon requires discerning, identifying and promoting concrete practices which allow us to be a synodal Church on mission.&#8221; <strong>(</strong></em><strong>FD)</strong></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Listening is the first step, but it requires having an open mind and heart, without prejudices.  Do we identify prejudices and stereotypes that hinder our listening? How do we listen to the social and cultural context in which we live?&#8221;  </em><strong>Preparatory Document</strong></p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7yXI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbacdd7ad-63c8-4ff2-ac74-0b1b04de75f3_1248x832.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7yXI!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbacdd7ad-63c8-4ff2-ac74-0b1b04de75f3_1248x832.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7yXI!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_848, 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/__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbacdd7ad-63c8-4ff2-ac74-0b1b04de75f3_1248x832.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>The entire navel gazing compilation of Synodal Documents can be found <a href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/assembly/bookdocuments/The-synodal-journey-Documents-EN.pdf">here:</a> </strong></p><p><strong>Here&#8217;s an interpretive key: The hidden agenda buried in the synodal documents is exposed by the calculated repetition of carefully chosen buzzwords&#8212;strategically deployed by the synodal architects to obscure and sanitize the true objective: a revolutionary restructuring of the Catholic Church under the guise of </strong><em><strong>renewal and dialogue</strong></em><strong>.  </strong></p><p><strong>A forensic targeted keyword analysis of the 337 page synodal documents database  reveals the synodal authors calculated and diabolical plan: to erode the foundational doctrines of the faith and supplant the Roman Catholic Church with a generic New Synodal Church indistinguishable from other religions and devoid of Catholicity.  </strong></p><h4><strong>FREQUENCY OF WORDS USED IN 336 pages of SYNODAL DOCUMENTS:</strong></h4><p><strong>Journey- 242                                  Confession (as in sacrament)-0</strong></p><p><strong>Listening -407                               Dogma-5</strong></p><p><strong>Dialogue- 196                                Commandment-2</strong></p><p><strong>Discernment- 359                          Rosary-0</strong></p><p><strong>Synodal- 1,209                                Purity-0</strong></p><p><strong>Process- 411                                    Contrition-0</strong></p><p><strong>Ecological- 25                                 Adoration-5</strong></p><p><strong>Environment-83                             Mary-8</strong></p><p><strong>LGBT-17</strong>                                          <strong>Chastity-0</strong></p><p><strong>Unity- 391                                        Mass-3</strong></p><p><strong>Experience-394                                Soul-1</strong></p><p><strong>Diversity-128.                                   Evil-4</strong></p><p><strong>Relationship-124                              Gender-12</strong></p><p><strong>Pastoral-158                                      Inclusive-20</strong></p><p><strong>Diversity-128</strong></p><p><strong>Walking together-59</strong></p><p><strong>Path-107</strong></p><p><strong>************************************************************************************************</strong></p><h4>Pink Pill Christianity</h4><p><strong>The dominant synodal language (above) permeating  the official documents is reminiscent of Fulton Sheen&#8217;s warning about the kind of Christianity doomed to fail:  He described it as: </strong></p><blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Pink-Pill Christianity&#8221; &#8212;</strong><em><strong> &#8220;a faith that evades discipline, sacrifice, moral law, and truth in favor of emotional comfort and therapeutic uplift, sacrificing the altar for the couch and the Cross for the clinic.&#8221;</strong></em></p></blockquote><h4>What is the endgame with this synodal linguistic psyop? </h4><p><strong>In his book, </strong><em><strong>Communism and the Conscience of the West, </strong></em><strong>Venerable Fulton J. Sheen delineated both the characteristics of the anti-christ, and described the new religion forged by the man of perdition. It eerily mirrors the master plan underway by the Vatican&#8217;s synodal revolution:</strong></p><blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>He (the anti christ) wants no proclamation of immutable principles from the lofty heights of a steeple, but mass organization through propaganda where only a common man directs the idiosyncrasies of common men. Opinions, not truths, commentators not teachers. The third temptation which Satan asked Christ to adore him and all the kingdoms of the world would be His, will become the temptation to have a new religion without a Cross, a liturgy without a world to come, a religion to destroy a religion, or a politics which is a religion&#8212;one that renders unto Caesar even the things that are Gods.&#8221; </em></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Because his religion will be brotherhood without the fatherhood of God, he will deceive the elect. He will set up a counter church which will be the ape of the Church, because he, the Devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p><strong>Closely examine the therapeutic words and new age lingo promulgated in the synodal documents-they are utterly empty of </strong><em><strong>&#8220;divine content.&#8221; </strong></em><strong>  </strong></p><p><strong>The work of the new synodal church is well underway. The Leo Vatican intends to replace the Roman Catholic Church with a New Synodal Church, and in the words of Kamala Harris, </strong><em><strong>&#8220;to be unburdened by what has been.&#8221;</strong></em></p><h3></h3><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Obscene Reality of the Sin-nod Report #9]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lest we forget the bawdy, blasphemous and x-rated funeral of Trannie Activist Cecilia Gentili]]></description><link>https://lizyore.substack.com/p/the-obscene-reality-of-the-sin-nod</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lizyore.substack.com/p/the-obscene-reality-of-the-sin-nod</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Yore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 15:23:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yu58!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F26a2d8ee-f841-421b-8d10-0bd06120daa2_1024x683.heic" 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<strong>reality of lived experiences.&#8221;</strong></em> </p><p style="text-align: right;">~<a href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/process/implementation/10workinggroups/final-reports/sg9/SG-9_Final-Report.pdf">Synod Study Report Group #9 p.4</a></p></blockquote><p>James Martin, S.J. rolled out his breathless and fawning media statement in response to the newly released Synodal Study Group #9 regarding the issue of  LGBTQ++ in the Church. Martin&#8217;s press release in Dignity&#8217;s Outreach newsletter entitled, &#8220;<strong><a href="https://outreach.faith/2026/05/vatican-listens-to-lgbtq-people-a-major-step-forward/">Vatican listens to LGBTQ people: A major step forward.&#8221;</a> </strong></p><p>What major step forward? For whom? </p><p>According to Fr. Martin, </p><blockquote><p>&#8220;In its <strong><a href="https://www.synod.va/en/the-synodal-process/phase-3-the-implementation/the-study-groups/final-reports/group-9.html">final report,</a></strong> released today, Study Group #9 of the Synod of Bishops, has published the testimonies of two gay men, as part of what they call <em>&#8220;<strong>cases for listening.&#8221;</strong> </em>As far as I know, this marks the first time that a Vatican report has included such detailed stories from LGBTQ Catholics.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>Martin continues:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;The report focuses mainly on the &#8220;methodology&#8221; by which the church can <em>discern</em> a way forward on <strong>&#8220;emerging issues.&#8221; </strong>That is, it asks: What is necessary for the church <strong>to </strong><em><strong>discern </strong></em>the correct doctrinal, pastoral and ethical responses to <strong>emerging issues</strong>? One necessity, they write, is listening. As the Study Group writes in its executive summary, when it comes to the synodal way that the church has embarked on, a way <strong>supported by both Popes Francis and Leo XIV, &#8220;[T]he disposition to listen to the testimonies shared by the people with first-hand experience takes on particular importance.&#8221;<br></strong></p></blockquote><p>Note carefully the synodal linguistic jiu jitsu of <em>&#8220;paradigm shift&#8221; </em>deployed 18 times in the Report.  Wave a magic synodal wand of &#8220;<em>discernment&#8221; </em>(used 55 times in the Report) and <em>&#8220;listening&#8221;</em> (used 28 times) and <em>poof </em>moral doctrines disappear into thin air. Martin and his oppressed cohorts, play the victim, as the aggrieved and persecuted class which is standard Marxist propaganda. The synod report shamelessly employs it:</p><blockquote><p><em>We wish to highlight the following: the solitude, anguish, and stigma that accompany persons with same-sex attractions and their families, not only in society but also within the Church; this is often linked to the temptation to hide in a &#8220;double life.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.synod.va/content/dam/synod/process/implementation/10workinggroups/final-reports/sg9/SG-9_Final-Report.pdf">As the report posits</a>,<strong> &#8220;[T]he experience of the synodal church demands that we listen to one another.&#8221; </strong> As if the world hasn&#8217;t been <em>listening </em>to the massive LGBTQ propaganda in the media, in the culture, and in the legal system for the last 60 years. This straw man argument is a head fake by synodal propagandists desperate to change moral teaching on sexual ethics.</p><p>The Synodal game plan is blatantly obvious: In fact, Pope Leo let the black cat out of the bag in his <a href="https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/09/in-interview-with-crux-correspondent-pope-talks-ukraine-synodality-polarization-world-cup">Crux interview in July of 2025,</a> when he said, <em><strong>&#8220;We must first change attitudes, before ever changing doctrine,&#8221;</strong></em> noting that issues like LGBTQ+ inclusion are highly polarizing within the Church.  Obviously, these Synodal Study Reports are all about <em>&#8220;changing attitudes.&#8221; </em></p><p>Brace yourself when you read the synodal documents which are breathtakingly condescending as they instruct the faithful that,  <em>&#8220;this is a practice of synodal learning.&#8221; <strong>Attention, children you need to learn to use your inside synodal voice and ears!    </strong></em></p><p>Here&#8217;s the money quote in all its subtlety: <strong>&#8220;</strong><em><strong>The synodal process, in reality, calls for a conversion of heart and mind as well as a transformation of practices so that we may walk with fidelity and renewed vigor.&#8221; </strong></em> Read that again! Make no mistake the entire synodal process is a psychological exercise to exorcise doctrine from the faith and install a new modern church comprised of the dogma of <em>listening and dialoguing.</em> This report, as well as the entire synodal project is a concerted psychological operation to impose a one world religion by 2030. Change attitudes first, then dogma will follow. </p><p>So, in the mandate of the synodal fathers, let&#8217;s <em><strong>journey together</strong> </em>to St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral in New York City on February 15, 2024 at the funeral of transgender activist, one Cecilia Gentili, born a boy in Argentina.  Let&#8217;s share the <strong>&#8220;</strong><em><strong>lived experience&#8221; </strong></em>of LGBTQia+activism in the Catholic Church. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O6Wm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2931afc-7a02-4994-a406-7bc9ec4464cc_209x280.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O6Wm!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2931afc-7a02-4994-a406-7bc9ec4464cc_209x280.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!O6Wm!, 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/__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2931afc-7a02-4994-a406-7bc9ec4464cc_209x280.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>In synodal lingo, let&#8217;s<strong> </strong><em><strong>discern </strong></em> the blasphemous and vile theatrics during this LGBTQ+++ funeral service held in the most prominent Catholic Cathedral in North America.  </p><p>Let&#8217;s <em><strong>listen </strong></em><strong>to the </strong><em><strong>dialogue</strong> </em>emanating from the pews of this hallowed Catholic Cathedral, the seat of the Archdiocese of New York. </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/nyregion/cecilia-gentili-funeral-st-patricks-cathedral.html"> The New York Times</a> dedicated two full columns to the funeral spectacle under the revealing title: <strong>St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral was the site of protests over the church&#8217;s position on homosexuality and AIDS. </strong>The funeral service was exploited by homosexual activists who loudly mocked and railed against the Church&#8217;s stance on gender ideology. <strong> </strong>To the horror of Catholics, the nave of St. Patrick&#8217;s served as the venue for this political drag queen story hour.  </p><p>Is that disgusting spectacle the <em><strong>&#8220;lived experience&#8221;</strong></em> that the Synodal fathers want Catholics to embrace? </p><p>Is this the <em>paradigm shift </em>that the Vatican is forcing on the faithful? </p><p>The LGBTQ++ mourners filled the  pews decked out in carefully chosen funeral regalia: the skimpy, the glitzy, the gaudy, and the drag. The <em>Times</em> story on the funeral was filled with glowing details, such as,  the <em>&#8220;daring outfits&#8212;glittery miniskirts and halter tops, fishnet stockings, sumptuous fur stoles and at least one boa sewed from what appeared to be $100 bills.&#8221;  </em></p><p>Is this the blasphemous <em>acceptance</em> that the synodal fathers insist upon?</p><p>Is this the <em>change of attitude</em> that Leo is demanding of the rigid faithful?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SCVs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F307655ea-ded7-483c-bf1e-e2fd6caba188_213x320.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SCVs!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, 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17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>The synodal fathers will be happy to learn<em> that </em>Catholics dutifully <em><strong>discerned </strong></em> that the LGBTQ++participants turned the ceremony into a sacrilegious and raucous vaudeville act.  Catholics  were repulsed and wholeheartedly rejected it.</p><p>Catholic Vote condemned the event on X pointing out that: </p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Pose&#8221; actor Billy Porter, whose singing performance during the funeral was characterized by the group as a mockery of the &#8220;Our Father&#8221; prayer. &#8220;This is just unbelievable and sick,&#8221; CatholicVote said on X.</p></blockquote><p>Rest assured, Synodal Fathers, Catholics are <em><strong>listening closely </strong></em>to the mockery of the Our Father at this <em><strong>inclusive</strong></em> LGBTQ++ service.</p><p>Let&#8217;s continue with the synodal <em><strong>listening journey</strong></em><strong> </strong>at the trannie funeral in the sacred space of St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral, where the holy incorrupt heart relic of St. John Vianney resides.</p><p>The New York Times also described that one eulogist led the congregation in repeated chants of &#8220;Cecilia, Cecilia,&#8221; the deceased&#8217;s name; another celebrated her as <em><strong>&#8220;St. Cecilia, mother of all whores&#8221; </strong></em>and one woman interrupted the &#8220;Ave Maria&#8221; by twirling and sashaying  down the aisle with the refrain of <strong>&#8220;Ave Cecilia.&#8221; </strong></p><p>Is this the new synodal <em><strong>inclusion</strong></em> path of mockery of the faith, blasphemy of saints, ridiculing the Blessed Mother envisioned by Leo and his synodal homosexualists? </p><p>Is this the <em><strong>paradigm shift</strong></em><strong> </strong>that the Synodal Study Report #9 seeks to impose on the Catholic faithful and their children? </p><p>Is this the <em><strong>&#8220;lived experience&#8221; </strong></em>that the Synod report demands that the Catholic faithful adopt with a new <em><strong>conversion of heart and mind</strong></em><strong>? </strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>No amount of Jesuitical jabberwocky or synodal syntactic sludge can dupe Catholics into accepting a sexual <em>paradigm shift</em> on the moral doctrines of the Catholic Church.  Gentili&#8217;s drag queen funeral mockery exposed the rot and depravity in the LGBTQ movement.  While the Vatican may revel in those campy antics, serious Catholics are repelled by it.</p><p>For starters, the reality of sodomy and sexual license ushered in AIDS, homosexual marriage, &#8220;gender affirming&#8221; mutilation,  hormone therapy drugs, single gender bathrooms, boys in girls sports and locker rooms, drag queen story hours,  preschool homosexual curriculum, and trannie political theatre funerals, and destruction of the family. </p><p>No veil of synodal psychobabble can conceal the radical agenda now in full view.  Leo&#8217;s <em>New Synodal Church, </em>the future replacement for the Roman Catholic Church is determined to obliterate two millennia of Catholic moral teaching and replace it with the promotion of homosexuality in the clergy, in the culture, and in the very doctrine of the Catholic Church. </p><p>Clearly, the Synodal Study Group Report #9 welcomes this subversion and diabolical process. Accordingly, the Report should be immediately rescinded, scrubbed from existence and its authors fired. </p><p>The battle lines are now drawn. The opponents of the faith are ready for battle. The time is now to engage. If we ignore the synod homosexualist modernists, we do so at our peril and our children&#8217;s souls. </p><p>Expose the synodal gaslighting and voice a loud and persistent resistance to the modernist agenda.</p><p>We have the faith, the saints, and 2000 years of moral teaching. They have their boas. </p><p>St. Peter Damian, the llth century Benedictine monk, reformer of the Church, and a declared Doctor of the Church boldly condemned the corruption of sodomy and homosexuality in the Church. He preached and wrote extensively about this scourge on the Church and in society:</p><blockquote><p><em>The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill the duties of everyday with exactitude and to study and work with all our strength. He pours light into our minds, arouses our desire and gives us strength... As the soul is the life of the body, so the Holy Spirit is the life of our souls.</em></p></blockquote><p>St. Peter Damian gravely cautioned:</p><blockquote><p><em>Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices.... It defiles everything, stains everything, pollutes everything. And as for itself, it permits nothing pure, nothing clean, nothing other than filth.</em></p></blockquote><p>St. Peter Damian perfectly described the spectacle funeral of the tortured soul of Mr. Gentili. </p><p>For a comprehensive critique of the Synodal Process see: <em>The Trojan Horse in the Catholic Church, by Father Enoch. Available at Amazon</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z0nX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9b6a4782-2f40-4846-b021-ce0d7dd6b38c_1200x1584.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z0nX!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9b6a4782-2f40-4846-b021-ce0d7dd6b38c_1200x1584.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z0nX!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_848, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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We may not be in it, but now we can see it. They can no longer hide. We now have the receipts. And enough is enough.]]></description><link>https://lizyore.substack.com/p/the-wise-men-of-the-west</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lizyore.substack.com/p/the-wise-men-of-the-west</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Yore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:20:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ebfG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F82277418-c45b-4d3e-8ea0-a11ca190d7b9_832x1248.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ebfG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F82277418-c45b-4d3e-8ea0-a11ca190d7b9_832x1248.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>*Globalist George Ball gushed that the global elites rank as the <em>&#8220;<strong>WISE MEN OF THE WEST.&#8221; </strong></em></p><p><strong>In reality, these global ghouls call the shots from the shadows, rig the game, run a secret pedophile underworld, shatter every rule to line their pockets and rule the planet&#8212;just ask the young girls they preyed upon. </strong></p><p><strong>Wise Men? Hardly. Demonic Dirtbags is more accurate.</strong></p><p>Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano succinctly captured the globalists operating in the Epstein cabal: </p><blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;This is a global coup d&#8217;etat to establish a planetary agenda, which will enslave everyone.&#8221; </strong></p><p> <strong>&#8220;A dangerous subversive elite which has infiltrated the highest levels of Western institutions to implement a criminal global plan.&#8221;</strong></p></blockquote><p><strong>The Epstein files blew the lid off the private shadowy syndicate of pedo power players who plotted youthful predation, financial domination</strong>,<strong> and demographic devastation in the dead of the Caribbean night. These self-appointed gods, the smug lords of easy money, ruled for three decades in the </strong><em><strong>Epstein ethos</strong></em><strong>, wielding herculean clout, obscene wealth, and downright diabolical political power. As these vultures literally  drained the lifeblood from their victims and society at large, they were shielded at every turn by banks, law enforcement, courts, governments, academia, and the media.  </strong></p><p><strong>The gig is up. Finally, time and their luck ran out.  </strong></p><p><strong>The </strong><em><strong>chicken hawks</strong></em><strong> have come home to roost. </strong></p><p><strong>No more pizza and grape soda, you, vile perps.</strong></p><p><strong>Now we know that these so-called </strong><em><strong>Wise Men of the West</strong></em><strong> are busy constructing a New </strong><em><strong>UNDER</strong></em><strong>WORLD Order, where the membership is exclusive while they plot to annihilate the plebian population by poison, war and plague. For their leisure and entertainment they prey on vulnerable young victims served up to feed their sick sexual proclivities and provide a steady supply for their dystopian lab experiments.</strong></p><p><strong>Let&#8217;s not mince words about this black book brotherhood: they are rapists and sadists, digital crooks and spirit cooks, traitors and dictators, eugenicists and breeders. These are the &#8220;credentialed&#8221;  Epstein elites: those who control our lives from our first breath to our last gasp. Posing as our </strong><em><strong>learned betters,</strong></em><strong> they seek to rid the world of  the &#8220;</strong><em><strong>poor people&#8221;</strong></em><strong> by any means&#8212;pandemics, wars, vaccines, abortion, eugenics-cull the dumb herd at all costs. (EFTA02020599.pdf).</strong></p><p><strong>They gleefully hurled their vast blood money at their demonic Frankenstein fantasies&#8212;engineering a master race while plotting to slaughter the rest of us like surplus herd of cattle. With the goal of mass depopulation, Epstein and his cabal played god in their eugenics experiment with the aim of mass depopulation to make room for superior elite bloodlines.</strong></p><p><strong>This is nothing new. They&#8217;ve lurked in the shadows for centuries, orchestrating our demise from gilded towers and secret chambers. </strong></p><p><strong>Until now.</strong></p><p><strong>What is next for them? That depends on us. The Epstein files ripped open the veil: their encrypted messages, their trophy photos, their private islands and hunting grounds, their cold blueprints for control. And we&#8212;the &#8220;useless eaters&#8221; devour their propaganda, scroll their scripted outrage, and fund our own obsolescence while they finalize the endgame. </strong></p><p><strong>The power dynamic is shifted-only if we seize this momentary opportunity.</strong></p><p><strong>Share the files like wildfire. Devour every name, every photo, every sick transaction. </strong></p><p><strong>Demand the immediate, unconditional release of all remaining documents-no redactions, no excuses, no more cover ups. </strong></p><p><strong>Expose them.  Depose them. Oppose them.</strong></p><p><strong>Isolate and denigrate their academic handlers and leeches. Seize and freeze out the Ivies-the elite universities who grovel for dirty shekels.  Debank the banks that protected the trafficker, violated every SARS law, and colluded with a global criminal predatory syndicate.</strong></p><p><strong>Hunt down every last deviant predator, every enabler, every blackmailed puppet. </strong></p><p>Accept nothing less than vigorous prosecutions, life imprisonment, and the total bankruptcy of their degenerate philanthropic and corporate machine.</p><p>Strip them of power, wealth, influence and protection. Drag their crimes into the light until their evil empires collapse. </p><p>No mercy. No forgiveness. No statute of limitations. </p><p><em>The Wise Men of the West</em>? Rather, the masters of the universe are exposed in all their depravity, nudity and impunity. </p><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lizyore.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading YoreChildren Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Pachamama Prevost]]></title><description><![CDATA[Does the Pachamama worshipping Robert Prevost of 1995 still cling to that pagan, anti-Marian cult today?]]></description><link>https://lizyore.substack.com/p/pachamama-prevost</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lizyore.substack.com/p/pachamama-prevost</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Yore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:21:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p><strong>During the Amazon Synod in November 2019, Francis paraded Pachamama, the Andean fertility goddess in an idolatrous ceremony in the Vatican Gardens and in St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica. The jaw-dropping scandal reverberated throughout the Christian world as the head of the Catholic Church clearly bowed down and worshipped a pagan fertility idol in the hallowed Vatican grounds. </strong></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lizyore.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading YoreChildren Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p><strong>A pagan idol.</strong></p><p><strong>This jarring shock awakened the Catholic world to Jorge Bergoglio. Who is this man who blatantly violated the First and Greatest Commandment: </strong><em><strong>You shall have no other gods before me?</strong></em></p><p><strong>The shameful display of syncretism permanently delegitimised and disfigured his 12-year regime. No explanation or excuse could mitigate this monstrous mockery of Christianity&#8212;it was nothing short of apostasy of the first order.</strong></p><p><strong>The lesson spoke volumes: Bergoglio elevated paganism, betrayed Catholicism, and mocked God and the Blessed Mother. From that moment on, he was the </strong><em><strong>Pachamama Pope</strong></em><strong>, reigning amid ridicule, suspicion and mockery, forever an indelible asterisk in the annals of Catholic patrimony.</strong></p><p><strong>Now,  to the horror of Catholics, we learn that the Robert Prevost, the successor to Francis displayed the same allegiance and reverence to pagan idols some 30 years before the Francis scandal. As an Augustinian missionary in Peru, Prevost seemingly did not follow Jesus&#8217; Great Commission (Matthew 28:16-20) to His disciples:</strong></p><blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.&#8221;</strong></em></p><p><strong>As Catholic missionaries, Prevost and the Augustinians are commanded by Jesus to convert the pagans to Christianity. Instead, they participated and submitted to the pagan rituals, giving them legitimacy, longevity and durability. These idolatrous rituals paid homage to the many gods of the Andean people by offering human and animal sacrifices to appease the angry gods.</strong></p><p><strong>This is the antithesis of the Great Mandate. These clerics inverted and mocked the very foundation and purpose of the Catholic missionary spirit. </strong></p><p><strong>Take off the blinders. Prevost and his companions shamelessly submitted to eco paganism, Gaiaism, and idolatry. They bowed down to the pachamama idol. It is as obvious as a naked wooden ferility demon pregnant with paganism-squatting brazenly before the high altar of St. Peter&#8217;s, while the Mother of God is banished to the sacristy and the bones of St. Peter and the martyrs scream in protest from the crypt below.</strong></p><p><strong>This outrage is a savage insult to the Mother of God: Our Lady of Guadalupe, the same Virgin who once crushed pagan sacrifices across the southern hemisphere, only to see them brazenly revived by Bergoglio and Prevost, who rolled out the welcome mat for the very demons she banished. They worshipped </strong><em>M<strong>other Earth, Pachamama.</strong></em></p><p><strong>In 1531, Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego to convert the indigenous people to the Catholicism from pagan practices. She left signs and wonders of her apparition to the people of the southern hemisphere.  </strong></p><p><strong>10 million Mexicans converted to the Catholic faith. The Blessed Mother&#8217;s words to Juan Diego underscored that she, the Mother of God, is their true and loving Mother, not Mother Earth, Pachamama, the pagan idol. Guadalupe Marian devotion still converts millions to this very day.</strong></p><p><strong>But for the miraculous intervention of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the pagan human and animal sacrifices would have continued. The pachamama idolatry by Prevost in 1995 and Bergoglio in 2019 remains a blasphemous assault on the missionary work of the Blessed Mother.</strong></p><p><strong>Pachamama represents the eco cult of Gaiaism promoted and practiced by liberation theologians in Latin America. The earth is a deity. In Christianity, humans are caretakers of God&#8217;s creation, (Genesis 1:28) rather than worshippers of it. This pagan religion of Gaiaism is a cult of worship where nature and humans are equal. Unlike Christianity, God is not at the center of the universe. All religions, including paganism, have equal value in this ideology. Gaiaism elevates the Earth to a divine status, thus worshipping the various gods of the earth, the god of water, sun, maize, fertility. Pagans believe that in order to tame the anger and fury of the gods, they must offer a human or animal sacrifice to tame and pacify vengeful gods.</strong></p><p><strong>The Blessed Mother arrived in spectacular fashion to end the intense fear and practices of human sacrifice in Aztec culture, replacing it with the message of her son, Jesus Christ. Her miraculous appearance and message sent a lightening bolt through the centuries of pagan human sacrifice. Her transformative words to Juan Diego replaced the fear driven and human sacrifice pagan cult of mother earth. Our Lady understood precisely that her missionary work was to eradicate pagan idolatry. As the maternal missionary, The Blessed Mother  reordered and instructed the souls of the indigenous people  at that moment on Tepeyac Hill: Leave and abandon your pagan practices and turn to Her Son, Jesus Christ:</strong></p></blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;My son, I love you. I desire you to know who I am. I am the ever-Virgin Mary; mother of the true God who gives life and maintains its existence. He created all things. He is in all places. He is Lord of Heaven and Earth and I desire a church in this place where your people may experience my compassion. All those who sincerely ask for my help in their work and in their sorrows will know their mother&#8217;s near in this place. Here I will see their fears and I will console men and they will be at peace. Know for certain that I am the perfect and ever Virgin Mary, Mother of the True God. &#8230; Here I will show and offer all my love, my compassion, my help and protection. I am your merciful Mother, the Mother of all who love me, of those who cry to me, of those who have confidence in me. I will hear their weeping and their sorrows &#8230; their necessities and misfortunes. &#8230; Listen, and let it penetrate your heart. &#8230; Do not fear any illness or vexation, anguish or pain. Am I not here who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not your fountain of life? Are you not in the folds of my mantle? In the crossing of my arms? Is there anything else you need</strong></em><strong>?&#8221;</strong></p><p><strong>6 times in that short message the Blessed Mother reiterates and identifies herself as </strong><em><strong>Mother.</strong></em><strong> SHE IS OUR MOTHER- She is the Mother of God, merciful and loving. She strikes at the heart of the pagan cult and forcefully teaches that the Loving God remains at the center of the universe, not like the imaginary vengeful or angry gods of the pagan world.</strong></p><p><strong>Did the Augustinians of South America embrace and preach the divine message of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Mother of our Salvific God? It appears not. </strong></p><p><strong>Today, we are left with a searing question that must be answered. </strong></p><p><strong>Does the Pachamama worshipping Robert Prevost of 1995 still cling to that pagan, anti-Marian cult today? There are troubling signs that he does. </strong></p><p><strong>Is that why he recently gutted the Blessed Mother&#8217;s most treasured title: Co-Redemptrix? </strong></p><p><strong>Catholics demand an answer. </strong></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lizyore.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading YoreChildren Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[                      The Pied Piper of Perversion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unimaginable perversion lurks inside the Epstein files, where he piped his depraved melody into every corner of the world.]]></description><link>https://lizyore.substack.com/p/the-pied-piper-of-perversion</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lizyore.substack.com/p/the-pied-piper-of-perversion</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Yore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:54:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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/__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d49b294-4759-49a7-9952-93e71642fadf_832x1248.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Into the streets the Piper stepped, smiling first a little smile, as if he knew what magic slept in his still pipe all the while for there his secret spells were kept.&#8221; ~Robert Browning</em></p></blockquote><p>The secrets are out. </p><p>In the shadowy ledgers of the Epstein files hovers every conceivable depravity imaginable&#8212;dark, twisted perversions that ensnared the innocent and shielded the powerful. Like a modern-day Pied Piper, he played his seductive tune across every nook and cranny of the globe, luring vulnerable young girls into his web of exploitation with promises of glamour money, power, and elite connections, only to drag them into an abyss of unimaginable abuse. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lizyore.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading YoreChildren Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>At the heartbeat of this global battle is the child, born and unborn. </p><p>It&#8217;s all on display in the Epstein documents. There is no denying, looking away, or pretending. </p><p>Our global overlords, the masters of the universe,  declared all-out war on children. </p><p>The question for humanity is simply this: Will we fight for our children? </p><p> Will we demand that corrupt institutions topple? </p><p>Will we seize power away from those elites who decide what food we eat, what air we breathe, whether we live or die, and what we are allowed to read and speak? </p><p>Will a sane and moral society be restored with justice for all?  </p><p> Here is a gruesome sampling of  perversions in the Epstein Files: </p><p>The Epstein Elite demand that children be <strong>aborted, exploited, silenced, trafficked, killed, euthanized, sterilized, transitioned, gene edited, corrupted, pornified, cloned, cannibalized, groomed, sexualized, surrogated, genitally mutilated, programmed, DNA seeded, bio-engineered, harvested, drugged, regendered, transgendered, bigendered, sold, sliced and diced for body parts for vaccines and for experimentation, and sacrificed on the demonic altar of depopulation</strong>.</p><p>In the prescient words of Fr. Malachi Martin,<strong> SATAN IS ON THE MARCH.</strong></p><p>The elite-the rich, the powerful, the celebrated-march in grim lockstep behind their Pied Piper, snuffing out nascent life, shattering childhood innocence, pulverizing the sacred family, crushing hard-won freedoms, enslaving the vulnerable, and relentlessly imposing their toxic, godless new world order upon a deceived and defenseless humanity.</p><p>Will we dance to their tune?  </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lizyore.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading YoreChildren Newsletter! 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Over 300,000 people gathered to protest the handling of the Dutroux child abuse case.]]></description><link>https://lizyore.substack.com/p/does-america-need-a-white-march</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://lizyore.substack.com/p/does-america-need-a-white-march</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Elizabeth Yore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:30:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rvyq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffff227e8-523f-4860-8a9e-1ed757cdec27_1200x800.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rvyq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffff227e8-523f-4860-8a9e-1ed757cdec27_1200x800.heic" 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Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees.&#8221; </strong></em><strong>~Charles Peguy</strong></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://lizyore.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading YoreChildren Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p><p>Virginia 1996- We sat at my  dinner table, sharing a quiet but profoundly moving conversation with some of the very parents whose daughters were stolen and murdered by Marc Dutroux&#8212;the Belgian monster whose crimes shattered an entire nation.</p><p>These grieving mothers and fathers, carried the unbearable weight of unimaginable loss. They spoke with the same raw fury which ignited the people of Belgium. They recounted how their children&#8217;s screams went unheard in hidden cellars, how police blunders and judicial corruption let a known pedophile slip through the cracks again and again, and how whispers of elite protection networks were buried under layers of official denial and incompetence.</p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ht58!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7707f444-71f1-4330-85ae-0e013f4babe9_1440x810.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ht58!, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/w_424, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/lizyore.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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The system that was meant to safeguard the innocent had instead shielded the predators, allowing young girls to be abducted, tortured, and discarded like refuse. The nation erupted in disbelief and righteous anger&#8212;not just at one depraved man, but at the rotten institutions that enabled him and others to rob children of their innocence.</p><p>Out of that despair came the <strong>White March</strong>&#8212;a spontaneous, grassroots cry from broken-hearted parents who refused to let their children&#8217;s innocence die in vain. They called on every Belgian to wear white, the color of purity and lost childhood, and to flood the streets of Brussels in silent, searing protest. No grand organization, no celebrity endorsements&#8212;just ordinary citizens, united in grief and determination, marching for justice, accountability, and the protection of every vulnerable child.</p><p>On October 20, 1996, an astonishing <strong>300,000 people</strong>&#8212;nearly 3% of Belgium&#8217;s entire population&#8212;answered the call. They filled the capital in a sea of white, a peaceful yet thunderous rebuke to a corrupt and failing system. The government could not ignore it. Resignations followed, police forces were restructured, judicial reforms were enacted, and a parliamentary inquiry exposed layers of incompetence and possible cover-ups. </p><p>The White March didn&#8217;t just mourn the dead&#8212;it forced change.</p><p>That same spirit of righteous outrage is stirring again today, here in America and beyond. The Epstein files, the endless revelations of elite impunity, the two-tiered justice that protects the powerful while children suffer&#8212;the parallels to Dutroux&#8217;s Belgium are chilling and undeniable.</p><p>Those parents I worked with reminded me: real change begins when ordinary people, especially mothers and fathers, rise up and say <strong>enough</strong>. When we harness national fury into unified, visible action, the powerful must listen&#8212;or be swept aside.</p><p>America desperately needs its own White March: a massive, peaceful mobilization of parents, citizens, and people of conscience to demand full transparency, independent investigations, and ironclad protections for our children. No more excuses. No more cover-ups. No more sacrificed innocence.</p><p>The children deserve nothing less. 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